Not sure why I’ve been tagged in this post, but I have to say… Cocksfoot Harvest…
I have questions… 
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“Cocksfoot Harvest” was the title of Country Calendar which was broadcast at 7.45pm on the evening of Sunday 15 May 1983 on TV One (now TVNZ 1).
According to Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s website, the synopsis for that episode reads: “Jim Duncan uses 1920s machinery, reapers and binders to harvest his cocksfoot (grass) seed.”
Country Calendar is one of the longest-running television series in New Zealand (by number of years on air), after Coronation Street. There have been at least 1,000 episodes broadcast, although the show’s producer suggests between 1,200 and 1,250 is more likely.
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Today’s TV: Saturday 1 June 1985
from the NZ Listener
TV One
8.00am Fraggle Rock
8.30 What Now
10.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 The Munsters (Rpt)
11.00 Star Trek (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Across the Wide Missouri (1951) (Rpt)
1.20 Sport on One
Include rugby, motorcross and racing from Ellerslie
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Me and My Girl
7.30 Entertainment Showcase: 25 Years of New Zealand Television
11.00 Entertainment This Week
11.55 News
12.00am Bogart (Movie): They Drive by Night (1940) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.40 Closedown
TV2
Noon Our World: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Rpt)
12.45 Best of Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Dig This
1.15 Lottery
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Kitty (1945) (B&W) (Rpt)
3.55 The People’s Court
4.20 More Real People
4.40 Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking
5.05 Emmerdale Farm
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Metal Mickey (Final)
6.50 Preview 2
7.00 Fast Forward
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Saturday Playhouse: To the Lighthouse
10.25 News
10.40 World Cinema: Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Italian film with English subtitles
12.00am Closedown
On the evening of Saturday 1 June 1985 at 7.30pm on TV One (now TVNZ 1), “25 Years of New Zealand Television” was broadcast as a one-off special.
Recorded at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, the special was held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of television in New Zealand and was hosted by a variety of well known New Zealand celebrities, both past and present, particularly Dougal Stevenson, Peter Sinclair, Bob Parker and Roger Gascoigne.
The special was memorable for the return to TV of three New Zealand television icons - Ginette McDonald (as her alter ego Lynn of Tawa) and the return of the cast of South Pacific Television’s (SPTV) highly successful comedy series “A Week of It” starring lead comedians David McPhail and Jon Gadsby. It also featured live performances by a host of artists who contributed to television in its earlier years - Dinah Lee, Tom Sharplin, Steve Allen, The Chicks, Mr Lee Grant, Tina Cross, Maria Dallas, Brendan Dugan, Jodi Vaughan, Ray Woolf, John Grenell, Patsy Riggir and The Rumour just to name a few.
But there’s more!
Roger Gascoigne introduced a montage of hilarious montage of humorous TV moments from its first 25 years, some planned and others probably not - from turkeys in gumboots, Bill McCarthy’s exploding piano, and Relda Familton being judo-flipped, to Tom Bradley losing his script during the 6.30pm news, and presenter Peter Sinclair disappearing in dry ice at the 1983 Feltex Awards.
At the time “25 Years of New Zealand Television” was the first programme to be given a three-hour timeslot (as published in the NZ Listener), although eventually it ran overtime to 3.5 hours.
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Some of the programs have to be pushed back and the closedown think it started later.
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Today’s TV: Thursday 3 June 1982
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 You and Your Child
11.05 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.25 Take Kerr (Rpt)
11.30 Sykes (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Sesame Street
3.55 After School, including:
3.55 Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
4.20 3-2-1 Contact
4.35 Video Dispatch
5.00 W-3
5.30 Huntingtower (Part 3)
6.00 Game of the Century
6.30 News
Includes Nationwide plus Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Gaffer
8.30 Contact: They Shoot Commercials, Don’t They?
9.00 To Serve Them All My Days
10.00 Dynasty
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Dallas (Rpt)
3.25 General Hospital
4.05 The Waltons (Rpt)
5.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News
6.10 Dig This
6.30 CHiPs
7.30 Best of the West
8.00 Hart to Hart
9.00 Eye Witness News
9.45 The Two Ronnies
10.40 The Sweeney (Rpt)
11.40 Make Me Laugh
12.00am Closedown
Jesus have Coronation Street played on other channels other than TV One?
No. Coronation Street hadn’t been shown on other channels until 1995 when it was broadcast on Sky’s former Orange channel (in addition to TV One’s own broadcast).
Least TVNZ made the catch up to 1 week behind the UK broadcast in 2018
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It did. Because Coronation Street is produced as six half hour episodes over three nights a week in the UK, it plays here in a double episode format every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on TVNZ 1 at around 9.30pm.
I’m not sure Jesus would know… try asking Jeeves.
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I saw Coronation Street nearly moved to Prime TV in 2005, the reason they stopped it it they have spent a lot of money for renewal of the distributor which it kept on One.
Today’s TV: Wednesday 8 June 1977
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Forearmed
12.35 Good Farming
1.00 Today at One
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.20 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.45 Crown Court
3.15 Nice One, followed by Hattytown Tales (Rpt)
3.25 Curly and Coconut
3.35 Mr
3.45 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (Rpt)
4.10 Lassie
4.35 Bewitched (Rpt)
5.05 Bonanza
6.00 That’s My Mama (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Angels
8.00 The New Avengers
9.00 The Dick Emery Show
9.30 News
9.40 Sportsnight
10.10 The Hanged Man
11.05 News and Weather
11.10 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm One to Three with Blackie, including:
1.00 Search for Tomorrow
1.30 Dinah!
2.00 Love on a Rooftop
2.30 Thirty Minutes’ Worth
3.00 Chicaboom, including:
3.02 Romper Room
3.25 Korg: 70,000 BC
4.00 Here’s Andy, including:
4.00 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
4.35 The Time Tunnel
5.30 The Partridge Family
6.00 First Edition (News)
6.30 A Week to Remember Special: She’s Our Queen Too, You Know
7.30 Doctor in Charge
8.00 Within These Walls
9.00 Starsky and Hutch
10.00 Late Edition (News)
10.10 Hudson and Halls (Final)
10.40 The Untouchables (B&W)
Followed by Closedown
All programmes on TV One and SPTV were broadcast in colour, unless otherwise specified.
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Was Play School the Australian one or did NZ have their own version?
@Brianc68 According to Wikipedia, Play School was first broadcast in New Zealand on Tuesday 22 March 1972 and series one and two continued to be broadcast twice weekly, Tuesday and Thursday at around 4.30pm. It was originally filmed at AKTV2’s Shortland Street studios in Auckland, and in later years, at what was then TVNZ’s Dunedin studios (and, occasionally, Christchurch studios) being screened twice a day at around 10am and then 2.30pm. The last series screened on television in 1990.
The show was provided by the BBC in “kitset” form. They supplied scripts and also short filmed items for showing “through the windows”.
The show starred five toys, which are famously nostalgic for New Zealanders who watched the programme as children. They are:
- Big Ted: A traditional-style golden coloured teddy bear.
- Little Ted: Identical to Big Ted, but much smaller.
- Humpty: A round green fabric toy resembling Humpty Dumpty.
- Jemima: A rag doll with orange woollen hair.
- Manu: A very human-looking plastic doll with Māori features, such as dark skin and hair.
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Thanks. ABC probably used the same kit.
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I’d say so initially. Later on they made their own.
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There is a Link to Shortland Street and Play School(but the Aussie Version)
Jennifer Ludlam who plays Leanne in Shortland Street was a presenter on Play School in Australia
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Today’s TV: Saturday 9 June 1990
from the NZ Listener
TV One
8.45am Teletext in Vision
9.00 Floyd on Fish (Rpt, G)
9.30 Vintage: A History of Wine (G)
10.00 A Ticket to the World (G)
10.55 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records (G)
11.10 Trapper John MD (G)
Noon Sorry!
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 international cricket, volleyball, football and racing from Ellerslie
5.00 One World of Sport: Nissan Rugby Special
Includes highlights of Canterbury v Scotland and a full round-up of today’s provincial and club scores
6.00 One Network News
6.30 A Dog’s Show (Starting tonight)
7.00 Mud and Glory
7.30 Our World: Land of Dragons
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Perry Mason - The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987)
10.25 One Network News
10.35 One World of Sport: Sports Special
Includes cricket (England v New Zealand) and basketball (Wellington v Waitakere)
1.00am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Breakfast Club, including:
6.31 Groovie Goolies (G)
7.00 Galtar and the Golden Lance
7.25 Denver, the Last Dinosaur (G)
8.00 What Now
10.00 RTR Sounz!
11.00 Life in the Fridge Exists
11.30 Perfect Strangers
Noon The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
12.30 My Two Dads (Rpt, G)
1.00 Great Circuses of the World
2.00 Saturday Cinema: East Side, West Side (1949) (B&W)
4.00 The Adventures of Black Beauty (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
7.30 Major Dad
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Who’s the Boss?
8.30 21 Jump Street (AO)
9.30 Unsub (Final) (AO)
10.30 WWF Superstars of Wrestling
11.30 Cops (AO)
12.00am The Tracey Ullman Show
12.30 It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
1.00 Closedown
TV3
7.00am EBS (G)
Includes Kissyfur, Dennis the Menace, Dinosaucers, Garfield (Rpt), Voltron
10.00 Shakedown (G)
11.00 Welcome Back Kotter (Rpt, G)
11.30 Chico and the Man (Rpt, G)
Noon Country Clips
1.00 AfterMASH (G)
1.30 Movie Matinee: El Greco (1964)
3.05 Movie Matinee: The Big Show (1961)
5.00 Shakedown: The Second Edition (G)
5.45 3 National News
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Wonderful World of Disney: This Is Your Life, Donald Duck
7.30 The New Adventures of Black Beauty
8.00 Life’s Most Embarrassing Moments
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Lion of Africa (1987)
10.30 The Fall Guy (AO)
11.30 Sara (G)
12.00am Closedown
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newsday
7.00 CNN International Hour
8.00 Newsday
8.30 BBC News
9.00 Newswatch
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 Earlybird News
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 Daybreak
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
6.55am Football: FIFA World Cup '90
Argentina v Cameroun, live from Milan
9.00 Closedown
Noon Football: FIFA World Cup '90
Argentina v Cameroun, full replay
2.00 Cricket
England v New Zealand - first test, day two. Highlights
4.00 Top Rank Boxing
Tracy Spann v Bernard Gray
5.00 Rugby
France v Australia
6.30 Rugby League
The Winfield Cup
8.00 Basketball
Wellington v Waitakere, live
10.00 Cricket
England v New Zealand - first test, day three. Live from Nottingham
5.00am Closedown (approx)
Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth (GY)
12.30 Loving (G)
1.00 The Beachcombers (G)
1.30 Fun in the Sun
2.00 Masters of the Universe (1987) (GY)
4.00 The Riddle of the Sands (1978) (G)
6.00 Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) (R16)
8.00 The Big Red One (1982) (GA)
10.00 Year of the Dragon (1985) (R16)
12.21am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Wednesday 14 June 1978
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Forearmed
12.45 Country Calendar (Rpt)
1.00 Good Day
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.45 Play School
3.10 Nice One
3.15 Arthur and his Square Knights of the Round Table (Rpt)
3.40 The New Mickey Mouse Club
4.05 Nice One
4.10 Gilligan’s Island (B&W) (Rpt)
4.35 Room 222 (Rpt)
5.05 Born Free (Rpt)
6.00 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The Onedin Line
8.00 One Day at a Time
8.30 The New Avengers
9.30 News
9.40 Prime Time
10.10 Seasons of the Year (Part 6) (Final)
11.05 News and Weather
11.10 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Search for Tomorrow
3.25 Chic Chat, including:
3.25 Romper Room
3.55 Spider-Man
4.30 Hey Hey It’s Andy, including:
4.30 Laramie (Rpt)
5.30 The Brady Bunch (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Six-Thirty Special: The Britannia Awards
7.30 The Liver Birds
8.00 Movie of the Week: Scaramouche (1952) (Rpt)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 The National Dream: Building the Impossible Railroad (Final)
11.30 Closedown (Time approx)
All programmes on TV One and SPTV were broadcast in colour, unless otherwise specified.