Sunday 9 July 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 Gran
7.05 The Adventures of Snelgrove Snail
7.15 Superbook
7.40 Tube Mice
7.45 Tumbledown Farm
7.55 Dastardly & Muttley (Rpt)
8.15 Top Cat (Rpt)
8.40 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
9.05 Scientific Eye
9.25 Praise Be
9.55 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt)
10.20 The Taste of Health (Rpt) (Final)
10.45 Life on Earth (Rpt)
11.40 Angels
12.05pm Smithsonian World
1.00 News Review
1.25 Six Women Writers
1.55 Sunday Grandstand. Includes rugby league, rugby, basketball and tennis
6.00 A Dog’s Show
6.30 Network News and Sport
7.00 Frontline
7.45 Mastermind
8.15 Colin’s Sandwich
8.55 Mobil Masterpiece Theatre: A Penny for Your Dreams
10.55 Kaleidoscope
11.25 Network News
11.35 Private Schulz (Rpt)
12.30am Cool It
12.55 Wimbledon 1989. Men’s singles final, live (subject to weather conditions)
3.30 Closedown
Network Two
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 Waka Huia
Noon Opus
1.00 USA Today
1.25 Kate & Allie
1.50 A Country Practice
2.50 Mother and Son (Rpt)
3.20 Upstairs, Downstairs
4.20 Last of the Summer Wine
4.55 The Planets
5.30 Life in the Fridge Exists
6.00 Strangers
6.30 A Different World
7.00 Your Choice
7.15 Don’t Tell Me
7.45 Mini-Series: The Shadow Trader (Part 1)
9.20 Duet
9.50 CV
12.00am Closedown
On the evening of Sunday 9 July 1989 at 7.45pm, TVNZ’s Network Two (now TVNZ 2) screened the first of a two-part “money and greed” mystery thriller, The Shadow Trader. Produced in-house by the TVNZ drama department, The Shadow Trader was set in a Rogernomics-era ‘New Auckland’ of property deals and horse racing.
Working class lass Tammy Costello (played by Annie Whittle) and art consultant Joanna McCarthy (played by Miranda Harcourt, better known as Gemma Stace/Redfern from Gloss) were an unlikely duo who inherited a racehorse and a greasy spoon cafe (instant coffee rather than cappuccino). British import James Faulkner played the role of David Constance, a shady developer whose scheme was blocked by the duo.
Part two screened on the evening of Tuesday 11 July 1989 at 8.30pm on Two. More later.