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Today’s TV: Saturday 7 July 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.15am Teletext in Vision
9.30 Floyd on Britain and Ireland (G)
10.00 A Ticket to the World (G)
10.50 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records (G)
11.05 All Creatures Great and Small (Rpt, G)
Noon Sorry! (Rpt, G)
12.30 The Duchess of Duke Street (Rpt, G)
1.25 Dad’s Army (Rpt, G)
2.00 One World of Sport: Sports Saturday
Includes football (FIFA World Cup 1990 semifinals), cricket (England v New Zealand - third test, day two), tennis (Wimbledon 1990 - women’s semifinal) and racing from Trentham
5.00 One World of Sport: Nissan Rugby Special
6.00 One Network News
6.30 A Dog’s Show
7.00 Mud and Glory
7.30 Our World: Path of the Rain God (Part 4) (G)
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Witness (1985) (Rpt)
10.35 One Network News
10.45 One World of Sport: Sports Special, including:
10.45 International Cricket: England v New Zealand - third test, day three, live from Edgbaston
12.00am Basketball 1990 (Rheineck Basketball League)
12.40 Tennis: Wimbledon 1990 - women’s singles final, live
3.00 International Cricket (continued)
5.15 Football: FIFA World Cup 1990 - third/fourth place playoff, live (kickoff at 6am; continues to 8am)

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Breakfast Club, including:
6.31 Groovie Goolies (Final)
7.25 Denver, the Last Dinosaur (G)
8.00 What Now
10.00 RTR Sounz!
11.00 Full House
11.30 Perfect Strangers
Noon The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt, G)
12.30 My Two Dads (Rpt, G)
1.00 Great Circuses of the World
1.55 Saturday Cinema: Case Timberlane (1947) (B&W)
4.00 The Adventures of Black Beauty (Final) (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Hogan Family (G)
5.00 A Country Practice
6.00 RTR Countdown
6.30 Free Spirit (G)
7.00 Growing Pains (G)
7.30 Major Dad (G)
8.00 Lotto
8.05 Who’s the Boss? (G)
8.30 21 Jump Street (AO)
9.30 Hardball
10.30 Cops (AO)
11.00 WWF Superstars of Wrestling (AO)
12.00am The Tracey Ullman Show (AO)
12.25 It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (G)
12.55 Closedown

TV3
7.00am EBS (G), including:
7.00 Kissyfur
7.20 Mighty Mouse
7.30 Kiri Kea’s Kitchen
7.40 Dennis the Menace
7.50 Birthday Calls
8.10 Garfield (Rpt)
8.25 Orson’s Farm
8.50 Flick City
9.00 Top Five at Nine
9.20 Voltron
10.00 Shakedown (G)
11.00 Welcome Back, Kotter (Rpt, G)
11.30 Chico and the Man (Rpt, G)
Noon Country Clips (Final) (G)
1.00 AfterMASH (G)
1.30 Movie Matinee: Blue Hawaii (1961) (Rpt)
3.15 Movie Matinee: No Minor Vices (1948) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.00 Shakedown: The Second Edition (G)
5.45 3 National News
6.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
6.30 The Wonderful World of Disney
The Leftovers (Part 2)
7.30 The New Adventures of Black Beauty
8.00 Life’s Most Embarrassing Moments
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
10.30 The Fall Guy
11.30 Don’t Miss Wax
12.15am Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newsday
7.00 CNN International Hour
8.00 Newsday
8.30 BBC 6pm 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 Showbiz Today
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 International Correspondents
11.00 CNN Sports Closeup
11.30 Business Day
12.00am Daybreak
12.30 The Big Story
1.00 News Update/Health Week
1.30 Moneyweek
2.00 News Update/Showbiz This Week
2.30 Style with Elsa Klensch
3.00 News Update/Science & Technology
3.30 Baseball 90
4.00 Newsday
4.30 Evans & Novak
5.00 Newsday
5.30 Newsmaker Saturday (Continues to 6am)

Sky Sport
Noon Tennis
Wimbledon 1990 - men’s semifinals
3.30 Motorsport
Saturday Night Thunder
5.00 Rugby League
Winfield Cup 1990, live
6.45 Rugby Extra
Wellington v Auckland
8.00 Basketball
Rheineck Basketball League - Hutt Valley Lakers v Bay Hawks, live
10.00 Golf
Northville Long Island Classic - round one
11.30 Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth (GY)
12.30 The Beachcombers (G)
1.00 Loving (G)
1.30 The Ewoks (G)
2.00 Legend (1985) (G)
4.00 Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
6.00 Honkytonk Man (1983) (R13)
8.00 Firefox (1982) (GA)
10.15 Manhunter (1986) (R16)
12.19am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Thursday 11 July 1985
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.55 Tai Chi (Rpt)
11.00 Crossroads
11.20 The Wombles (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
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 Sesame Street
4.00 After School, including:
4.05 The Littlest Hobo
4.35 Video Dispatch
5.00 The Flintstones (Rpt)
5.30 Swalk
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)
7.30 Coronation Street
8.30 Close Up
9.30 The Kenny Everett Television Show
10.00 The Professionals (Rpt)
11.05 News
11.10 Closedown

TV2
Noon The Midday Movie: I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.55 Hi-de-Hi! (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
4.05 Thursday Afternoon Movie: Forbidden Cargo (1954) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Monkees (Rpt)
7.00 Love Thy Neighbour (Rpt)
7.30 Simon & Simon
8.30 Dynasty
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Tonight with Cathy Saunders
11.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Saturday 12 July 1975
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon Saturday Matinee: The Blue Veil (1951) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.00 News
2.05 Sport on One
Includes hockey (North Island v South Island) and football (Chatham Cup quarterfinal)
5.05 The Beachcombers
5.30 The Adventures of Black Beauty
6.00 Pop the Question
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
7.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
8.30 News
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Sweet Charity (1969)
11.05 Dean on Saturday
Followed by Closedown

TV2
1.00pm Free Time
2.00 Paper Moon
2.25 Untamed World
2.50 Saturday Matinee: Gentle Giant (1967)
4.40 Woody Woodpecker (Rpt)
5.05 Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
5.20 Klassic Keystone Komedy Kapers (B&W)
5.30 The Chicago Teddy Bears
6.00 News
Saturday at Six (Auckland)
The South on Saturday (Christchurch)
6.30 The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
7.30 Ironside
8.25 Saturday Cinema: Torn Curtain (1966)
10.25 Newsroom (Late News)
10.35 Banacek
11.55 Closedown

All programmes broadcast on TV One and TV2 were broadcast in colour unless otherwise specified.

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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.

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Today’s TV: Monday 13 July 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.35am Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Angels (Rpt)
11.30 Yoga with Sandra Riddle
11.35 You’re Only Young Twice
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 Crown Court
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 The Munch Bunch
3.00 Chic Chat
3.30 After School
Includes Motormouse & Autocat and Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
4.00 Take Hart
4.20 Once Upon a Story
4.30 Come Back Lucy
5.00 The Square Leopard (Final)
5.30 The Mad Dog Gang Spooks Wilkie Wink Wink and the Wobbler (Rpt)
6.00 Koha
6.30 News
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
7.30 South (Dunedin)
8.00 The Billy T James Show
8.30 Shoestring (Final)
9.30 Soap
10.00 Dallas
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 Monday Afternoon Movie: Barney (aka “Who Says I Can’t Ride a Rainbow!”) (1971) (Rpt)
5.00 Star Trek
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7.30 The Faith Brown Chat Show
8.00 Mini-Series: A Town Like Alice (Part 3) (Final)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Leave It to Charlie
11.00 Vega$
11.55 Closedown

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Extra: Wednesday 8 July 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 A Place in History
11.30 Yoga with Sandra Riddle
11.35 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 Crown Court
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 Song Book
3.00 Chic Chat
3.30 After School
Includes Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
4.00 The Electric Company
4.35 Fangface
5.05 A Dropa Kulcha
5.30 The Flying Kiwi
6.00 It’s Academic
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 Close Up
9.00 Barney Miller
9.30 The Challenge
10.00 Sporting Life
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm For Maddie with Love
3.00 Soap (Rpt)
3.30 General Hospital
4.00 All Creatures Great and Small (Rpt)
5.00 Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Give Us a Clue
7.00 The Muppet Show
7.30 Mork & Mindy
8.00 The Sullivans
9.00 Hammer House of Horror
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Movie for TV: The Girls at the Office
Starring Susan St James (“Kate & Allie”) and Barbara Eden (“I Dream of Jeannie”)
12.15am Closedown

@foxyrover @TelevisionAU In the early 1980s, Kevan Moore & Associates (an independent production house headed by Kevan Moore, who was referred to as ‘the godfather of music on New Zealand television’) hired Les Thompson, an Australian journalist and broadcaster who was based in New Zealand at the time and had worked as a newsreader at Radio Hauraki in those days, to host the New Zealand version of “Give Us a Clue”, with Jenny Maxwell and Peter Rowley leading the celebrity teams.

“Give Us a Clue”, a British televised game show version of charades which was licensed by Thames Television International (now Fremantle) and broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1992. From 1979 to mid-1984, the show was originally hosted by Michael Aspel, and then by Michael Parkinson from mid-1984 until it ended in 1992.

According to Wikipedia, the game was based on charades, a party game where players used mime rather than speaking to demonstrate a name, phrase, book, play, film or TV programme. Each player was given roughly two minutes to act out their given subject in front of his/her team, and if the others were unsuccessful in guessing correctly, the opposing team would have a chance to answer for a bonus point.

The original New Zealand version of “Give Us a Clue” ran on TVNZ for two years (1980-81).

In 1993, the format was brought back by TV3 (now Three) with Brian Edwards as host and Gary McCormick and Belinda Todd as team captains. The TV3 version was produced by Michael Hockley and Gray Taylor of First Pictures, an independent production house which also produced the Sir Howard Morrison specials for TV3 and, later, TVNZ.

In 1999, “Give Us a Clue” reappeared on TVNZ and ran for 13 shows, plus a Christmas special and a summer special over the Christmas/New Year holiday period. Marcus Lush was the host and Gary McCormick, captain of the men’s team, was joined by actress and comedienne Alison Wall as captain of the women’s team. The shows were recorded at Auckland’s SkyCity Theatre.

You can watch both parts of the 1981 “Give Us a Clue” show, which was broadcast on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 6.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 8 July 1981, via YouTube. Featured celebrities were Tina Cross, Diana Lakin, Christine Lloyd, Brent Bodie, Richard Moss and Marcus Craig.

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 14 July 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.00am The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
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) (Final)
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 The Old Firm
8.00 Simon & Simon (Final)
9.00 The Tuesday Documentary
Why Dogs Don’t Like Chili: But Some Like It Hot
10.00 Hill Street Blues (Final)
11.00 Survivors (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
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:
4.00 Emu’s World (Final)
4.25 The Flintstone Frolics (Rpt)
4.55 The Children of Green Knowe (Part 3)
5.30 Dr Who (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Highway to Heaven (Final)
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Money-Go-Round
8.30 The Golden Girls (Final)
9.00 Hollywood Wives (Final)
10.00 EyeWitness
Includes a news update, current affairs and “Worldwatch”
11.00 The Untouchables (B&W) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

@Sheldon_Betteridge The final ever episode of “Hill Street Blues” screened in New Zealand on TV One at 10pm on the evening of Tuesday 14 July 1987.

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There is a New series will be airing on TVNZ 1 later this year, with Hilary Barry, former MP Paula Bennett and Tom Sainsbury

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Today’s TV: Sunday 15 July 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 Of Course You Can Do It
12.30 Dig This
12.45 The Big Match
1.35 Sunday Matinee: Summer Stock (1950)
3.25 The Tribal Eye
4.15 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (B&W) (Final)
4.35 Rozzo
4.40 The Wonderful World of Disney
Child of Glass (Part 1)
5.30 Spot On
6.00 A Dog’s Show
6.30 News
6.45 Sunday’s World
7.00 Show of the Week: Shirley Bassey (Final)
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Lillie
8.50 News
8.55 Questions Please
9.25 Offerings
9.30 Spaghetti Two-Step
10.25 The Martin Best Consort
11.10 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon Kaleidoscope
1.00 Farming Today
1.15 Pacific Viewpoint
1.30 Church in Action
1.45 Helping You to Help Your Child (Part 2)
1.53 Sunday’s Child
2.08 Make and Do
2.15 Book Review
2.23 Home Butchery
2.30 Sportsworld
4.45 In the Wild with Harry Butler
5.15 The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
6.00 Weekend Edition News
6.10 World Watch
6.28 Weather
6.30 Stars on Sunday
7.00 Dave Allen and Friends
7.30 The Growing Pains of PC Penrose
8.00 The Val Doonican Music Show
8.45 Sunday Feature: A Sensitive, Passionate Man (1977)
10.25 Weekend Edition News
10.35 Little and Large
11.05 Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi (Closedown)

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Extra: Saturday 14 July 1984
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.00am Fraggle Rock
8.30 What Now
10.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
10.55 Star Trek (Rpt)
11.50 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Sport on One
Includes international rugby league (NZ v Great Britain, live), rugby (South Africa v England), volleyball, track and field, darts and “Road to Los Angeles”
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Decision 84
TVNZ’s election night coverage, live from Avalon
11.20 Entertainment This Week
12.15am News
12.20 Closedown

TV2
Noon Our World: The Polar Bear (Rpt)
12.45 The Best of Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Dig This
1.15 That’s Incredible (Rpt) (Final)
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Roustabout (1964) (Rpt)
3.40 Made by Hand
3.55 The People’s Court
4.15 More Real People
4.40 The Magic Wok
5.05 Emmerdale Farm
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Production Line
6.50 Preview 2
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 Jane Eyre
8.30 The South Bank Show: Benjamin Britten
9.25 Saturday Playhouse: Heartland
10.20 News
10.35 World Cinema: Throne of Blood (1957) (B&W)
Japanese dialogue with English subtitles
12.20am Closedown

@OnAir @TV4 The 1984 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the 41st New Zealand Parliament. It marked the beginning of the Fourth Labour Government, with David Lange’s Labour Party defeating the long-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, of the National Party.

At 7pm on the evening of Saturday 14 July 1984, “Decision 84”, TVNZ’s election night special, screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) and was broadcast live to air from the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington. Rodney Bryant and Fred Cockram introduced that night’s coverage, and the reporters located in key electorates at the time were Brett Dumbleton, Jim Greenhough, Rob Harley, Richard Harman, Amanda Millar, Kevin Ramshaw and Ted Sheehan. Back in the studio, the co-hosts were joined by political commentator Colin James.

According to the Listener, the election night special’s finish time is 11.20pm (approx). If the people’s decision on who they want to lead the country became clear at an early stage, “Entertainment This Week” (not related to the 1984 election campaign) would be brought forward and followed by an episode of “The Chinese Detective”, then the late news and the Goodnight Kiwi.

TV2 (now TVNZ 2) screened progress reports on the election night results during the evening.

At 11am on this day (15 July) in 1984, “Decision 84: The Day After” was a detailed review of the results from the 1984 general election which saw Sir Robert Muldoon’s National Party defeated by David Lange’s Labour Party. Discussion includes predictions for what voters can expect from the new political leaders over the next three year term.

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Today’s TV: Sunday 15 July 1984 (post-election)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Sport on One
11.00 Decision 84: The Day After
Includes On Line
12.10pm News
12.15 NBA Basketball 1984
12.55 Tomorrow’s World
1.00 Agreport
1.15 Dig This (Rpt)
1.30 Alison Holst Cooks
1.45 This Is Music (Rpt) (Final)
2.00 Sport on One Special
Basketball - national league final, live
4.00 The Fur Coat Club (Rpt)
4.15 Monkey
5.00 A Dog’s Show
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Credo
6.30 News
7.00 Koha
7.15 Africa
8.05 What on Earth
8.35 Rumpole of the Bailey
9.25 News
9.40 Sunday
10.20 Play of the Week: Blind Faith
11.15 News
11.20 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: Road to Zanzibar (1941) (Rpt)
1.25 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
1.50 Opus: A Season of Opera
The Tales of Hoffmann
4.30 The Irresistible Dream
5.05 Jazz Seen
5.55 News
6.00 The First Olympics: Athens 1896
6.45 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Private Benjamin
7.25 Sunday Movie: The Ivory Ape (1980)
9.00 Oh! Madeline
9.25 Radio with Pictures
10.10 The Sunday Horrors: The Stepford Wives (1975)
12.05am Closedown

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Monday 17 July 1989
from Wairarapa Times Age

TV One
9.55 In Vision Teletext
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Rainbow (Rpt)
11.15 Smurfs (Rpt)
11.40 Amioo and Friends
11.45 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
12.00 Network News
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Days Of Our Lives
2.10 Coronation Street (rpt)
3.05 Massage
3.35 Nature Watch
4,10 Terry And June (Final)
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons And Daughters
6.00 Network News At Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 EastEnders
7.30 Matlock
8.30 Bust
9.30 Eyewitness News
10.00 Wide World of Sport
Rugby League - Winfred Cup
Motor Racing - British Grand Prix - Formula One
Motorcycle Racing - French Motorcycle Grand Prix- 500cc World Championship
12.00 Closedown

Network Two
10.50 In Vision Teletext
11.05 The Young And The Restless
12.00 Love Connection
12.30 The Duck Factory (Final)
12.55 The Love Boat
1.50 Threes Company (Rpt)
2.15 After Two
2.16 Play School (rpt)
2.40 Dr Snuggles
2.50 Zoobilee Zoo
3.15 Square One
3.45 3:45 Live
3.50 Dander Mouse (Rpt)
4.05 Danger Bay
4.40 RTR Mega Mix
5.10 The Mostly Useful Job Guide
5.40 Newsbreak And Regional Programmes
6.00 MAS*H (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Sale Of The Century
7.30 The Flying Doctors
8.30 China Beach
9.30 Twlight Zone
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Entertainment This Week
11.30 ??
12.30 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 22 July 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.00am The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.30 Heggerty Haggerty
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.15 The Young and the Restless
1.15 What a Carry On (Starting today)
1.45 Days of Our Lives
2.40 The Practice
3.40 Lou Grant (Starting today) (Rpt)
4.45 Don’t Ask Me (Starting today) (Rpt)
5.15 Emmerdale Farm
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H
6.30 Network News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 The Natural World of the Maori (Starting tonight)
8.30 My Sister Sam (Starting tonight)
9.00 A Very Peculiar Practice (Starting tonight)
10.00 Filthy, Rich and Catflap (Starting tonight)
10.45 Steptoe and Son (Starting tonight) (Rpt)
11.20 Secret Army (Rpt)
12.20am Closedown

Network Two
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
1.00 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
1.35 A Family at War (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.58 After School, including:
4.00 The Smurfs (Rpt)
4.30 A Day in the Life… (Starting today)
5.00 Butterfly Island
5.30 Dr Who (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Our House (Srarting tonight)
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Dallas (Double episode, final)
10.00 EyeWitness
Includes a news update, current affairs and “WorldWatch”
11.00 Soap (Rpt)
11.30 Barney Miller (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 24 July 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm News and Weather (Colour)
2.05 Movie: An Affair to Remember (1974) (Colour)
4.03 The Brian Keith Show (Colour)
4.30 What’s My Line?
4.54 Paddington, Sam, Dudley… and Merv
5.04 Make a Wish (Colour)
5.32 News (Colour)
5.37 The Flintstones (Colour) (Rpt)
6.04 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 Sing (Colour)
8.18 Ironside (Colour)
9.15 Newsbrief (Colour)
9.17 Inquiry (Colour)
9.45 Doctor in Charge (Colour)
10.15 Late News and Weather
10.21 Closedown

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Is there any significance to so many shows starting that day?

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Wonder if you have the TV Guide for the 1984 Olympics?

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@TelevisionAU In the final week of July 1987, TVNZ introduced a new season of springtime programming which included the debuts of:

  • the drama serial “Gloss”
  • comedy-drama series “Peppermint Twist”
  • children’s dramas “Steel Riders” and “The Fire-Raiser”
  • four-part miniseries “Erebus: The Aftermath”
  • seven-part drama series “The Marching Girls”
  • game show “Every Second Counts” (with one of New Zealand’s controversial broadcasters, Paul Henry, as host)
  • the live Lotto draw
  • …and many more.

At 6pm on the evening of Sunday 19 July 1987, Network Two (now TVNZ 2) screened an hour-long special which featured highlights of TVNZ’s spring season programmes. It gave us as New Zealanders a sneak preview of what’s coming up on TVNZ later in 1987.

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@Sheldon_Betteridge I have the listings for day one of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the form of a PDF file. Most of TV One’s daytime programming was temporarily transferred to TV2, but “See Here” and “Beauty and the Beast” took a break and returned after the Olympics.

Monday 30 July 1984 (Day 1 of the 1984 Olympics)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (Day 1)
Live and delayed coverage of the first day of competition from Los Angeles. Includes swimming, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, hockey and equestrian. Plus news bulletins at approx 7am, 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm, and a summary of the day at 5pm
6.00pm M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Country GP
8.30 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (Day 2)
Includes swimming, road cycling, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, boxing, weightlifting and volleyball
10.30 National Party Conference
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
11.30am Play School
11.55 You and Your Child
Noon The Young and the Restless
12.55 Dad’s Army (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Pullover (Rpt)
3.05 The Hans Christian Andersen Fairytales
3.30 After School, including:
3.30 Pinocchio
3.35 The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle
3.45 Once Upon a Story
3.55 Bookworm with Sara Baxendell
4.05 Vet’s Corner with Alex Familton
4.10 Ritter’s Cover (Rpt)
4.40 Home
5.10 Mork and Mindy (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 Whiz Kids
7.30 Our World: The Rains Came
8.30 Falcon Crest
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Muck and Brass (Final)
11.00 Quincy
11.55 Closedown

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Where New Zealand has won record 8 Gold Medals