Extra: Friday 16 September 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Rainbow
11.15 Henry’s Cat
11.20 Jamie and the Magic Torch (Rpt)
11.30 The Munch Bunch (Rpt)
11.45 Kohanga Reo
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.35 Prisoner (Final)
3.35 The World of Survival
4.00 Crossroads
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.00 Holiday
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Mini-Series: King of the Olympics (Part 2)
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.15 Mini-Series: King of the Olympics (Part 2; continued)
11.15 Late Movie: The Pursuit of DB Cooper (1981)
1.05am Closedown
Network Two
11.00am Teletext in Vision
11.15 The Young and the Restless
12.15pm The Love Connection
12.40 The Friday Matinee: Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
2.30 Play School
2.55 After School, including:
2,55 Tales of the Wizard of Oz
3.04 The Telebugs
3.10 Storytime
3.23 Orm and Cheep
3.37 The Snorks
4.03 Storybook International
4.30 Voyagers!
5.25 Newsbreak
5.30 Doctor Who (Rpt)
6.00 Benson (Rpt)
6.30 Mac and Mutley
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 Lookin’ Good
8.00 Misfits of Science
9.00 Downtown
10.00 Married… with Children
10.30 Newsbreak
10.33 Friday Night
12.00am Closedown
The final episode of “Prisoner”, an Australian serial drama based around a women’s prison, was broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 2.35pm on the afternoon of Friday 16 September 1988. It was first shown in Australia on 11 December 1986 (via ATV-10 Melbourne).