Today’s TV: Thursday 28 August 1975
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
Noon Pop the Question
12.30 Lunch Box
12.35 The Young and the Restless
1.00 Today at One
1.30 Days of Our Lives
1.55 The New Land (Final)
2.50 Play School
3.20 Make a Wish (Rpt)
3.40 The Long Nosed Princess
4.10 Sea Lab 2020 (Rpt)
4.35 Daktari (Rpt)
5.30 Bewitched (Rpt)
6.00 Gilligan’s Island
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 M-A-S-H
8.00 The Streets of San Francisco (Final)
9.00 Tonight at Nine
9.30 Movie for Television: Big Rose (1974)
10.55 Weather, Closedown
TV2
1.00pm Search for Tomorrow
1.20 Speakeasy
1.50 The Little People
2.15 Concentration
2.45 Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
3.10 Circus (Rpt)
3.35 Romper Room
4.05 The Bugs Bunny Show
4.30 C Gull
5.05 Space Kidettes
5.15 Flipper
5.40 The Flintstones
6.05 Lost in Space
7.00 News
Auckland: Two at Seven
Christchurch: Points South
7.30 Opportunity Knocks
8.20 Alias Smith and Jones
9.15 Dave Allen at Large
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Soccer Scene
11.25 Closedown (Time approximate)
All programmes on TV One and TV2 were broadcast in colour unless otherwise specified.
@TelevisionAU @OnAir @leotv “The Young and the Restless”, a serial drama revolved around three ‘Middle-American’ families, premiered in New Zealand on the afternoon of Monday 25 August 1975 and screened at 12.35pm on TV One (now TVNZ 1).
When Y&R began airing on our screens, here’s a rundown on the characters’ virtues and vices, according to the NZ Listener.
Brad Eliot, a neurosurgeon and psychiatrist from Chicago, hides his identity after coming to Genoa City. Stuart Brooks, owner of the Genoa City newspaper, is married to Jennifer and they have four daughters: Leslie, 24, a pianist; Lorie, 21, who has just returned home after a European sojourn; Chris, 19, a college student; and Peggy, 16, a high school student. Liz Foster is a deserted wife working in a factory to support her three children: Snapper (Bill), 21, in medical school; Greg, 20, just starting his law practice; and Jill, 18, a hairdresser. Pierre is the owner of a restaurant which bears his name and has just married Sally McGuire, a waitress. Marianne Rolland is Pierre’s sister from Paris. Philip Chancellor is the manager of the factory owned by his wife Kay, and Dr Bruce Henderson, Liz’s brother, has a successful practice in Chicago.
Y&R became regular Monday to Friday afternoon viewing and was hugely popular with its New Zealand fans. However, the soap was about four seasons behind the current CBS season due to being preempted by holiday programming and live sports events. It was last shown on 6 November 2009.
Y&R’s equivalent, “Days of Our Lives”, made its debut on New Zealand screens on the afternoon of Monday 7 July 1975; it was shown at 1.30pm on TV One.
In fact, TV One opened its daily broadcasts at 2pm with a five-minute afternoon news bulletin but, during mid-1975, the on-air hours were extended.
Below is the history of start times for TV One:
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31 May 1975: Weekend transmission begins at midday. On Saturdays, a matinee movie screens at noon, with the afternoon news and “Sport on One” to follow. On Sundays, “The Big Match” (highlights from a main sporting event of the week) screens at noon, with the afternoon news and a matinee movie to follow. During the week, TV One opens at 2pm (except on Queen’s Birthday Monday, 2 June, when transmission began at noon with the matinee movie “The Nevadan”, followed by “The Amazing World of Kreskin” and “Transtel Sports Magazine”, then the afternoon news and a Queen’s Birthday edition of “Sport on One”).
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7 July 1975: Weekday transmission begins at 1pm with “Today at One”, a lunchtime magazine programme which includes an afternoon news bulletin. “Days of Our Lives” follows at 1.30pm, although it began with later episodes instead of the first episode (as seen on NBC in November 1965)… I think.
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9 August 1975: Saturday transmission begins at 10am with an ‘early bird’ edition of “Sport on One”, followed by new local programmes “Of Course You Can Do It” (DIY) and "Good Farming (farming issues). Meanwhile, Sunday transmission begins at 11am with a new programme called “Open Mind”, a look at faith inside and outside the church.
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25 August 1975: Weekday transmission begins at 11.30am and “Play School” now screens twice a day - at the start of TV One’s weekday broadcasts (11.30am) and at around 3pm. The first episode of the US soap, “The Young and the Restless”, screens at 12.35pm.
