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Extra: Wednesday 7 July 1980
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.35am Play School
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.40 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 The Rag Trade (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Fun Factory, followed by Sesame Street
3.30 Once Upon a Time
3.45 Whisper of Glocken
4.00 The New Mickey Mouse Club
4.25 Tracy *80
4.55 Good Times
5.25 Sapphire and Steel
6.00 Happy Days (Final)
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 Motor Show
8.30 McPhail and Gadsby on… (Starting tonight)
9.30 Sporting Life
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Crown Court (Rpt)
2.55 The Cedar Tree
3.20 Country Calendar (Rpt)
3.35 Dinah!
4.30 A Good Age
4.55 How Green Was My Valley (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 The Wednesday Special: Roy Clark Special 1979
7.00 Body Shop
7.30 Mork & Mindy
8.00 The Sullivans
9.00 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Part 2)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Police Woman (Final)
11.20 Come Back Mrs Noah (Part 3)
11.50 Closedown

@OnAir Recorded before an audience at the Christchurch Town Hall, “McPhail and Gadsby” premiered on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 7 July 1980.

Starring David McPhail and Jon Gadsby (from “A Week of It”), “McPhail and Gadsby” began life as a seven-part series that looked at some of the things that made life worthwhile - religion, sex, medicine, money, crime, death and war. Each programme in that series contained sketches and songs related to the topic of the week.

Within the next year, the single subject version of the “McPhail and Gadsby” brand was replaced with a political satire version that ran until 1987. During its seven-year run, it won “Best Entertainment Programme” at the 1983 and 1985 Feltex Awards and was nominated for “Best Entertainment Programme” at the 1986 National Mutual Gofta Awards.

The first instalment of “McPhail and Gadsby” plunged into religion as the object of satire, and the result spawned death threats and annoyed letters to the editor. You can watch it through NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.

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Both of them must dressed them of an angel so cutely, and that cracks me up.

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I’m still addicted to EastEnders to this day. It started on ABC in Australia then they dropped it. Thank god Foxtel picked it up a few years later from where ABC left off. Over the years they’ve caught up with the UK.

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I used to like it until it left free to air TV in New Zealand in 2009, shifting from Prime TV which started screening episodes from TVNZ in 2004 to UKTV where also remains to this day here too.

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Today’s TV: Saturday 28 June 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
7.00am Secret Squirrel (Rpt)
7.25 Fraggle Rock (Rpt)
8.00 What Now
10.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 The Munsters (B&W) (Rpt)
11.00 Battlestar Galactica (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Sport on One
Includes rugby (NZ v France), racing from Avondale, jetsprinting, car racing and wrestling
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
7.00 Me and My Girl
7.30 MacGyver
8.30 Billy T James
9.00 Saturday Premiere Movie: The Cheap Detective (1978)
10.55 Entertainment This Week
11.50 News
11.55 Late Movie: The Wild One (1954) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.15am Closedown

TV2
11.00am Aristocrats (Part 1) (Rpt)
Noon Our World: Masked Monkeys (Rpt) (Final)
12.55 Highway to Heaven (Rpt)
1.45 The Love Boat (Double episode)
3.45 The People’s Court
4.05 More Real People
4.30 Alison Holst’s Cooking Class
5.00 Emmerdale Farm
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Mind Your Language
7.00 We’re Only Human (Starting tonight; part 1)
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Hanlon (Part 1) (Rpt)
10.10 News
10.30 World Cinema: Sally and Freedom (1981)
A Swedish film with English subtitles
12.30am Closedown

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Emmerdale Farm was aired on TV2 in the early days to a modest audience, plus Rugby against France which they won 19-7

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There’s another theme tune I can’t get out of my head… wasn’t even a good one either.

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Today’s TV: Monday 30 June 1975
from the NZ Listener

TV One
2.00pm News
2.05 Journey
2.30 Harriet’s Back in Town
3.00 Play School
3.27 Sesame Street
4.26 Teddy Edward
4.33 Professor Balthazar (Rpt)
4.43 The Porky Pig Show
5.05 Saddle Up
5.10 The Tomorrow People
5.37 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6.00 Happy Days
6.25 This Week in Britain
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Doctor at Sea
7.55 Bon Appetit
8.10 Colditz
9.00 Tonight at Nine
9.30 Ascent of Man
10.20 Callan
11.10 Closedown

TV2
1.00pm Search for Tomorrow
1.25 Speakeasy
2.00 A Going Concern
2.30 Doc Elliot
3.30 Romper Room
4.00 These are the Days
4.30 Now C Here
5.00 Seven Little Australians
5.30 The Flintstones
6.00 Regional Programmes
The Goodtime Show (Auckland)
Norman (Canterbury)
6.30 My Three Sons
7.00 News
Two at Seven (Auckland)
Points South (Christchurch)
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs
8.30 Perspective
9.00 Softly, Softly: Task Force
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 The Marcus-Nelson Murders
1.00am Closedown (Time approximate)

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

@TelevisionAU On Monday 30 June 1975, New Zealand had its second national television channel - TV2. It began transmission at 1pm and its first programme was “Search for Tomorrow”, a US serial drama about Joanne Tate Vincent and her family, friends and acquaintances.

Initially, TV2 was only available in Auckland (from the Waiatarua transmitter) and Christchurch (from the Sugarloaf transmitter). Within three months the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions (from the Te Aroha transmitter) joined the potential audience. Wellington and Marlborough had to wait until the end of 1975 before they’d see it, with Dunedin, Southland and Manawatu only having access the following year. Reception outside those regions was not guaranteed at the time!

The new channel, based in Auckland and Christchurch, would draw its character, it was stated, from a community approach, a deliberate regional integration, a direct response to people and a subtle Polynesian blending.

TV2’s director-general at the time, Allan Martin, said, “We’re not based on some distant European model. We’re an organisation built, made and engineered in this part of the world for our own requirements, to serve the national interest.”

This was evident in its Polynesian influenced theme music, curling koru logo and strong local aspect (three-quarters of its half hour news slot at 7pm was devoted to regional news and current affairs). The channel’s community approach was highlighted in its birthweek with New Zealand’s first “Telethon”.

Billed as ‘24 hours of Excitement and Entertainment’, it was anticipated that 1,200 people, including entertainers and presenters, would be involved in Auckland and Christchurch, donating their services free of charge to raise funds for the St John Ambulance service.

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The channel for next year would be made many of locally made programmes leading to the golden age of New Zealand TV shows, and the programmers try to import many American shows to rival those of Australian commerical channels which led to cutback in hours by the government which pales on comparison to TV One.

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Seems to be a rather inglorious way to begin a new channel, with a lower ranked US soap.

Did any shows move across from 1 to 2 with the new channel launched or did 2 start with a clean slate of new shows?

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Today’s TV: Sunday 1 July 1984
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Sport on One
11.00 Titles
11.15 Money Report
11.30 On Line
Noon News
12.02 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)
2.00 Sport on One Special
International badminton - live from Auckland
4.00 Trams (Rpt)
4.15 Monkey
5.00 A Dog’s Show
5.30 Spot On
6.00 The Herd (Final)
6.30 News
6.45 Koha
7.00 Africa
7.55 What on Earth
8.25 Rumpole of the Bailey
9.20 News
9.30 Sunday
10.10 Play of the Week: Miss A and Miss M
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: Angel and the Badman (1947) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.35 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
2.00 Opus: A Season of Opera
3.55 Windsor and Newton: The Science of Art
4.15 Come Over to My Place (Rpt)
5.05 Jazz Seen
5.55 News
6.00 The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (Part 1)
6.45 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Private Benjamin
7.25 Sunday Movie: For Lovers Only (1982)
9.00 It Takes a Worried Man (Part 5)
9.25 Radio with Pictures
10.25 The Sunday Horrors: The Dark (1979)
11.55 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Saturday 2 July 1988
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 My Little Pony 'n Friends
7.30 Fraggle Rock
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
10.30 The Goodies (Rpt)
11.05 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Rpt) (Final)
Noon News
12.03 The High Chaparral (Rpt)
12.55 Selling the Games
1.50 Sport on One
Includes ice hockey, tennis, motor cycling, motor racing, Coast to Coast Marathon
5.45 Rugby Special
6.30 Network News
7.10 The Paul Daniels Magic Show (Final)
8.00 Clive James in Japan (Part 2)
9.05 The Equalizer
10.00 Midevening News
10.15 Tenko (Rpt)
11.10 The Rockford Files
12.00am Sweet FA
12.50 Tennis: Wimbledon 1988
Women’s singles final - live
3.30 Closedown (Time approximate)

Network Two
11.20am Teletext in Vision
11.35 Tagata Pasifika
Noon Small Wonder
12.25 The Saturday Matinee: Eric (1975)
2.00 Lost in Space (B&W) (Rpt)
2.50 Entertainment This Week (Edited version) (Rpt)
3.45 Taxi (Rpt)
4.15 Start of Something Big (Starting today)
5.00 Alison Holst’s Cooking Class 3
5.30 Throb
6.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 That’s Fairly Interesting
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Dolly
9.05 Saturday Night at the Movies: Mask (1985)
11.30 The Hitchhiker (Starting tonight)
12.00am Heartbeat City
12.50 Closedown

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@TelevisionAU Some of the programmes previously broadcast on the NZBC TV network, which was rebranded as TV One (now TVNZ 1) in April 1975, were transferred to TV2 (now TVNZ 2) and some were new to the channel.

Before TV One came along, the NZBC TV network was made up of AKTV2 in Auckland, WNTV1 in Wellington, CHTV3 in Christchurch and DNTV2 in Dunedin. Networking began on 3 November 1969 when the four regional stations finally linked together to broadcast the first"NZBC Network News" bulletin with Dougal Stevenson in the anchor chair.

According to Wikipedia, the NZBC’s microwave network between facilities was very much ad hoc. Due to a shortage of microwave links, the network was completed by “off air” hops, where a 100 kW regional transmitter was received and re-transmitted by another. The network news was made possible by switching inputs to the regional transmitters, so that a signal could be relayed across the country.

For instance, the Te Aroha regional transmitter for Hamilton could be switched away from Auckland programming (AKTV2) to relay off-air, the Wellington signal (WNTV1) coming up the country. Auckland then could see Wellington via Te Aroha. The non-synchronous switching was done manually initially and later with tone switching.

During the network news presented from Wellington, if an inject was required from Auckland, Auckland would switch from transmitting Wellington pictures to transmitting, briefly a black screen with a small white “A” in the corner. Then each transmitter down the country would have to switch over so that the “A” would eventually appear in Wellington and beyond. Once all centres could see the “A” caption, the Auckland inject would be played. At the end of the item, the process would be reversed with a “W” for Wellington being switched sequentially, and then finally the Wellington presenter would appear again in all centres.

The viewer would see a black non-synchronous switch which would take a second or so. Eagle-eyed viewers could see the identification letters change on the corner of the screen. Those with poor vertical hold would have to wait a little longer for the picture to stabilise. Occasionally, a transmitter would be switched out of sequence and the viewers would be treated to the sight of 100 kW of video feedback.

Up until 1969, there was no national coverage so the programmes (included those sourced from overseas) had to be flown from centre to centre and shown in different cities on different weeks.

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Great stuff, but that didn’t answer his question.

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@LiamP As I said before, some of the programmes previously screened on the NZBC TV network were transferred to TV2 and some were new to the channel when it began transmission on 30 June 1975. And that’s the answer.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 4 July 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
5.45am One World of Sport: FIFA World Cup 1990
Semifinal one - live from Naples
8.00 Movie: 1176 (1972) (Rpt)
10.40 Mother Goose Stories (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.50 Willo the Wisp (Rpt, G)
10.55 Doctor Snuggles (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Onedin Line (Rpt, PGR)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.15 Film on One: Oliver Twist (1985, Rpt)
2.00 The Kingdom of the Ice Bear (Final) (Rpt, G)
3.00 Knots Landing
4.20 Bosom Buddies
4.50 Emmerdale Farm (G)
5.20 North and South Island Programmes
NORTH: 5.20 Te Karere
5.30 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt, G)
SOUTH: 5.20 Bugs Bunny
5.35 Te Karere
5.45 The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) or The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Murder, She Wrote (AO)
9.30 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Rpt, AO)
10.00 One Network News
10.30 One World of Sport: Sports Special
Includes FIFA World Cup 1990, Wimbledon 1990 and rugby league
12.30am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Muppet Show Command Performances
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 Scooby-Doo (Rpt, G)
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Flintstone Kids (Final) (G)
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 The Merrie Melodies Show (Rpt, G)
9.00 Dinky Dog (Rpt, G)
9.20 The Munsters (Rpt, G)
9.45 Grange Hill (G)
10.10 Designing Women (PGR)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Webster (G)
2.25 After School, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 The Care Bears (G)
3.15 Wowser (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Centurions
4.20 The Video Dispatch
5.00 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours
7.30 Quantum Leap (PGR)
8.30 The Star Movie: The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
10.20 Newsbreak
10.25 Spenser: For Hire (AO)
11.25 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (G)
12.05am Closedown

TV3
Noon Midday Matinee: The Zoo Gang (1985)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Another World (PGR)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
4.00 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
4.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Rpt, G)
5.00 Home and Away (G)
5.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Family Feud
7.30 The Billy T James Show
8.00 Hey Dad…! (G)
8.30 Mini-Series: The Dunera Boys (Part 2) (Final)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Flamingo Road (AO)
12.00am 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 Earlybird News
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Business Day
12.00am Daybreak
1.00 CNN Morning News
2.00 World Day
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 Newshour
5.00 Sonya Live in LA (Continues to 6am)

Sky Sport
Noon Bodies in Motion
12.25 Body Shaping
1.00 Tennis
Wimbledon 1990, quarterfinals
4.00 Rugby League
State of Origin, game one - full replay
5.00 Motorsport
Off-road racing
6.00 Magic Years in Sport: 1965
6.30 Football
FIFA World Cup 1990, semifinal one
8.15 Tennis
Wimbledon 1990, quarterfinals
11.15 Rugby
New Zealand v Scotland, second test
1.00am Tennis
Wimbledon 1990, quarterfinals - live
5.00 Closedown (Time approximate)

Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth (GY)
12.30 The Beachcombers (G)
1.00 Loving (G)
1.30 The Ewoks (G)
2.00 The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) (G)
4.00 Wombling Free (1978) (G)
6.00 Oh God! You Devil (1984) (GY)
8.00 The Missionary (1982) (GA)
10.00 Vigil (1984) (GA)
11.45 Closedown

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Extra: Monday 4 July 1977
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.30am Play School
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Today at One
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.10 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.35 Crown Court
3.00 Nice One
3.05 Sesame Street
4.00 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (Rpt)
4.25 Julia (Rpt)
4.50 The Virginian (Rpt)
6.05 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Sutherland’s Law
8.20 Dateline Monday
9.00 Open All Hours (Series premiere)
9.30 News
9.40 Elizabeth R (Rpt)
11.10 News and Weather
11.15 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm Search for Tomorrow
1.20 Kojak (Rpt)
2.15 Dinah!
3.00 Chicaboom, including:
3.02 Romper Room
3.25 Chicaboom Special
4.00 Here’s Andy, including:
4.01 Banana Splits and Friends
4.25 Klassic Keystone Komedy Kapers (B&W) (Rpt)
4.35 Daniel Boone
5.30 The Partridge Family (Rpt)
6.00 First Edition (News)
6.30 Cher
7.30 Movin’ On
8.30 Alcock and Gander
9.00 The Rookies
10.00 Late Edition (News)
10.10 A Week of It (Series premiere)
10.45 Rat Patrol
Followed by Closedown

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

“A Week of It”, a comedy sketch show with a heavy reliance on political satire, was first shown on South Pacific Television (SPTV; now TVNZ 2) at 10.10pm on the evening of Monday 4 July 1977.

Although it only ran for three years, the show was very popular and groundbreaking for New Zealand television, and launched the careers of many local entertainers, most notably David McPhail and Jon Gadsby - also known as “McPhail and Gadsby”. You can watch the first episode of “A Week of It” through NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.

There’s more information on Wikipedia.

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Extra: Sunday 3 July 1977
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.00am Open Mind
Noon News
12.05 Crossroads
12.30 Big Match
1.00 Sunday Matinee: Blanche Fury (1948) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.30 Bon Appetit
2.45 Boasting
3.15 Silents Please (B&W)
3.40 The New Land (Rpt)
4.30 Arena
5.10 Spot On
5.40 The Wonderful World of Disney
Bon Voyage (Part 1)
6.30 News
6.45 Sunday’s World
7.00 Show of the Week: Nana Mouskouri
7.50 Country Calendar
8.05 Dickens of London
8.55 News
9.00 Seven Days
It’s a Living: The Country Giant
9.30 Offerings
9.35 Red Letter Day (Final)
10.25 Trial by Jury (Rpt)
11.00 News and Weather
11.05 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon Kaleidoscope (Rpt)
1.05 Action on Sunday: The Brigand (1952)
2.35 Sportsworld
4.40 On the Mat
5.10 Alias Smith and Jones (Rpt)
6.00 Weekend Edition (News)
6.15 World Watch
6.30 Stars on Sunday
7.00 Spring and Autumn
7.20 Family
8.10 Sunday Feature: Wuthering Heights (1970)
9.50 Weekend Edition (News)
10.00 Access
10.30 Father Brown
Followed by Closedown

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

Last week (30 June 2021), Radio 1XX Whakatane celebrated 50 years on air. And on the evening of Sunday 3 July 1977 at 9pm, TV One (now TVNZ 1) screened a “Seven Days” documentary about New Zealand’s then-smallest private radio station, which had been giving the Eastern Bay of Plenty its own MOR voice for six years.

John Adeane, who had worked at 1XX as an on-trial breakfast DJ during 1977, described his job as ‘personality projection’ as he chugged his job on a Camel and roused ‘the country giant’ (as the title of the documentary suggests). He described of the danger of being ‘an attractive proposition to the girls in town’, and described behind the scenes activities during the religious programming.

Other members of the 1XX team at the time were Les Western Russell (who doubled as DJ and programme director), Glenn Smith (who doubled as DJ and creative co-ordinator, responsible for writing commercials) and Ronny Phillips (who had hosted 1XX’s night show before going on to other brands, such as 89.8 Kiwi FM Hamilton/Tauranga and, later, The Breeze Waikato).

Glenn joined 1XX from Auckland’s Radio Bosom (now 95bFM) in 1974, and was appointed to the role of station manager in 1981. He has been the longest serving member of the 1XX team since.

You can watch the documentary through NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.

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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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