This Week’s TV: 7-13 May 1966 (CHTV3)
from The Press
Saturday 7 May 1966
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 The Cara Williams Show
2.31 Our Man Higgins
2.59 The Loretta Young Show
3.26 Hank
3.53 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
4.47 The Empire Games Boxing Trials
6.02 Headline News and Weather
6.04 Stingray
6.32 Swingin’ Safari
7.03 Hennesey
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.50 Sports News
8.00 Bewitched
8.28 The Danny Kaye Show
9.24 This Week in Britain
9.28 Enigma
10.18 Roving Report - Dispute Over Berlin Schoolgirl
10.31 Branded
10.58 Late News and Weather
11.05 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Followed by Closedown
Sunday 8 May 1966
2.00pm Headline News
2.04 Andy Pandy
2.20 Cinema Parade: Princess O’Rourke (1943)
3.51 Brute Force and Finesse
4.43 The Patty Duke Show
5.08 The Shari Lewis Show
5.28 Ivor the Engine
5.46 The Andy Griffith Show
6.11 Headline News and Weather
6.13 Frontiers of Faith
6.28 Disneyland
7.15 Country Calendar
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.47 Pictorial Magazine
7.57 In the Wake of the Canoes
8.37 The Black and White Minstrel Show
9.22 Dr Finlay’s Casebook
10.13 International Zone - The New and the Old
10.39 New Zealand Baroque Players
10.54 The New Week
10.59 Late News and Weather
11.06 Closedown
Monday 9 May 1966
5.00pm Animaland
5.04 The Nutty Squirrels
5.13 Canterbury Tales
5.43 Stamps with a Story
5.47 Alcheringa
6.03 Headline News and Weather
6.05 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
6.30 Look
6.53 The Donna Reed Show
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.57 Hugh and I
8.22 Grandstand
8.42 Fiedler at the Proms
8.53 The Trial at Nuremberg
9.42 Women in Crisis
10.51 Late News and Weather
10.58 Closedown
Tuesday 10 May 1966
5.00pm Merry-Go-Round
5.32 The Hector Heathcote Show
5.56 The Adventures of Tintin
6.02 Headline News and Weather
6.04 The Beverly Hillbillies
6.32 Hullabaloo
7.02 The Flintstones
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.50 Town and Around
8.07 The Dick Van Dyke Show
8.35 Coronation Street
9.04 Maverick
9.57 Mahalia Jackson Sings
10.02 The Victorians
11.00 Late News and Weather
11.08 Closedown
Wednesday 11 May 1966
5.00pm The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
5.28 Yo Heave Ho
5.58 The Nutty Squirrels
6.05 Headline News and Weather
6.07 Petticoat Junction
6.34 America
7.03 Car 54, Where Are You?
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.50 Town and Around
8.07 The Graham Kerr Show
8.36 Peyton Place
9.04 The Avengers
9.59 World Series of Golf
10.53 Late News and Weather
11.00 Closedown
Thursday 12 May 1966
5.00pm Diver Dan
5.09 Animaland
5.14 66 Clickety Click
5.44 Cartoons
5.50 Headline News and Weather
5.52 Camp Runamuck
6.20 On Safari
6.48 Candid Camera
7.15 In the Garden
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.50 Town and Around
8.07 Bonanza
9.00 Man of the Month - Ho Chin Minh
9.28 Z Cars
10.23 International Detective
10.52 Late News and Weather
10.59 Closedown
Friday 13 May 1966
5.00pm Casey Jones
5.25 Topmark
5.55 Headline News and Weather
5.57 Mister Ed
6.22 British Castles
6.55 Hazel
7.20 Sports Magazine
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 NZBC Reports (News)
7.48 Town and Around
8.05 Kidnapped
8.30 The Great Adventure
9.19 Movie: A Foreign Affair (1948)
11.10 Late News and Weather
11.16 Maigret
Followed by Closedown
Coronation Street first appeared on our screens on 16 June 1964, although television in New Zealand was not fully networked at the time and overseas programmes had to be physically flown across the country. This meant different broadcast dates across four different television stations: AKTV2 (Auckland), WNTV1 (Wellington), CHTV3 (Christchurch) and DNTV2 (Dunedin).
When Coro came to New Zealand for the first time, it originally screened only once a week on a Tuesday - for instance, Coronation Street aired on Christchurch’s CHTV3 at 8.35pm on the evening of Tuesday 10 May 1966. Within three years, the soap went to twice a week.
These days Coronation Street screens on TVNZ 1 at around 9.30pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening (subject to scheduling), with a repeat screening the next day at 2pm. In Britain the soap is produced as three hour-long episodes a week (as at 7 March 2022) and broadcast on ITV at 8pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (local time), and the episodes playing on TVNZ are ‘express from the UK’, i.e. one week after they are first shown on ITV.