Today’s TV (extra): Sunday 25 September 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 Wil Cwac Cwac
7.10 Rebecca
7.15 Wildfire
7.40 The Herbs (Starting today)
7.55 The Reluctant Dragon
8.20 The Jetsons
8.45 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
9.10 Praise Be
9.40 Aerobics Oz Style
10.05 Business World
10.30 Weekend
Noon News
12.03 English Soccer
12.30 News Review
1.00 Olympic Games: Seoul 1988 (Day 9), including:
Rowing
1.10 Men’s coxless four
1.20 Women’s single sculls final and women’s eight final
1.30 Men’s coxless quadruple sculls final
1.40 Men’s coxless pair final
1.50 Men’s eight final
Athletics
2.00 Men’s javelin final
3.30 Women’s 100m semifinals
3.35 Men’s 400m hurdles final
3.40 Men’s high jump final
3.50 Women’s 100m final
4.10 Women’s 400m semifinals
4.20 Women’s 800m semifinals
4.50 Men’s 800m semifinals
5.00 Diving - women’s springboard final, part one
5.30 Athletics - women’s 3000m final
5.40 Diving - women’s springboard final, part two
5.55 Swimming - heats session (recorded)
6.05 Country Calendar (Starting tonight)
6.30 Network News and Sport
6.50 Frontline
7.30 BNZ University Challenge
8.00 Roses
8.50 Network News
9.00 Olympic Games: Seoul 1988 (Day 9), including:
9.00 Gymnastic - women’s apparatus finals
10.00 Swimming - finals night
12.45am Weightlifting - 90 kg division
1.30 Closedown
Network Two
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 Waka Huia
Noon Angels (Rpt)
12.50 Opus: A Season of Opera
Eugene Onegin
3.40 Carol Burnett and Friends
4.05 Danger: Marmalade at Work
4.20 A Country Practice
5.05 Wavelength
5.35 Spot On
6.00 Sunday Family Movie: Living Free (1972) (Rpt)
7.35 The Hogan Family
8.00 Sunday Night Movie: The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984)
9.30 Porters
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
9.55 Radio with Pictures
10.40 Late Night Action: Mad Max (1979) (Rpt)
12.05am Closedown
@OnAir @foxyrover “Roses” was a television play (by Judith Fyfe) which followed the changing circumstances of three middle-aged sisters - played by Donna Akersten, Alice Fraser and Glenis Levestam - and their relationship with each other. Produced in-house by TVNZ at Wellington’s Avalon Television Studios, the 50-minute play screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8pm on the evening of Sunday 25 September 1988.
Also screening that evening was episode five of actor/writer Jonathan Hardy’s “Porters”, which was shown on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) at 9.30pm.
“Porters” was a six-part sitcom based around a group of porters working in a big city hospital. The series starred George Henare, Peter Bland (star of “Came a Hot Friday”), Bill Johnson (“Under the Mountain”) and Stephen Judd (“Bridge to Nowhere”), who shared no love for their boss (played by Roy Billing). Emmy award-winner Noam Pitlik (“Barney Miller”, “Taxi”) was brought in from the US to direct a New Zealand sitcom like this.
In that episode Peter, the junior porter, took over the midnight shift and a complication over a set of dentures involved a visit to the mortuary. Keep an eye out for Rima Te Wiata (“Hunt for the Wilderpeople”) who guest starred as Debbie, a worried nurse; this was one of Rima’s early screen appearances.
“Porters” was produced in 1987 and broadcast on TVNZ a year later. You can watch episode five through NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.