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Today’s TV: Tuesday 26 September 1989
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt)
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Storytime (Rpt)
11.15 Creepy Crawlies
11.25 The Amazing Adventures of Morph (Rpt)
11.30 Postman Pat (Rpt)
11.45 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Days of Our Lives
2.10 Bluebell (Starting today) (Rpt)
3.10 The Other 'Arf (Rpt)
3.45 The World of Survival
4.15 227
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 Life Without George (Final)
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: Carmen
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 St Elsewhere
10.55 Falcon Crest
12.00am Closedown

Channel Two
10.50am Teletext in Vision
11.05 The Young and the Restless
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 Starring the Actors
1.00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
1.50 Webster
2.20 After 2, including:
2.21 Play School (Rpt)
2.45 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.45: Live!, including:
3.50 Alvin and the Chipmunks (Rpt)
4.05 Jem
4.40 Mac and Mutley
5.15 My Two Dads
5.45 Newsbreak and Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 M-A-S-H
6.30 Neighbours
7.30 Richmond Hill
8.30 Tuesday Movie: Birth of the Beatles (1979)
10.40 Newsbreak
10.45 The “Slap” Maxwell Story
11.15 Buck James (Rpt)
12.10am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Saturday 27 September 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
7.00am The Wuzzles
7.25 Fraggle Rock
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
11.00 Battlestar Galactica (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Northwest Stampede (1948)
1.25 Gina: The Last Campbell
2.00 Sport on One
Includes diving, motorsport (Italian Grand Prix) and harness racing from Ashburton
4.30 News Review
5.00 Emmerdale Farm
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 Robin of Sherwood
8.30 McPhail and Gadsby
9.00 Saturday Night at the Movies: Jaws (1975)
11.30 Entertainment This Week
12.25am News
12.30 Movie: Al Capone (1959) (B&W)
2.15 Closedown

TV2
11.00am The Dragon Has Two Tongues
11.30 Free to Choose (Rpt)
Noon Our World: Fastest in the Claw / Sea Snakes: Friend or Foe
12.50 Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
1.45 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Tension at Table Rock (1956) (Rpt)
3.30 The People’s Court
3.55 Fresh and Fancy Fare
4.30 Sports Special: 1986 VFL Grand Final
Hawthorn v Carlton - live from the MCG, Melbourne
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Tales of the Unexpected
9.00 Birds of Prey II (Starting tonight)
9.55 News
10.10 Clive James in London
10.55 Bergerac
11.50 Closedown

@TelevisionAU @FootyKick The 1986 VFL Grand Final, between Hawthorn and Carlton, was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and broadcast live via satellite on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) on the afternoon of Saturday 27 September 1986 at 4.30pm (NZ time).

Hawthorn defeated Carlton 16.14 (110) to 9.14 (68) in the Final.

@Sleek822 Over on TV One (now TVNZ 1), the 1975 thriller “Jaws” was shown at 9pm and followed at around 11.30pm by “Entertainment This Week”. I’ve seen classic promos and commercials on YouTube recently as I tried to verify the exact broadcast date.

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Today’s TV: Saturday 28 September 1985
from the NZ Listener

TV One
7.00am Atom Ant (Rpt)
7.25 Fraggle Rock (Rpt)
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (B&W) (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
11.00 Bonanza (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Beachhead (1954) (Rpt)
1.35 Sport on One
Includes motorsport (1985 Rally of New Zealand and Bathurst 1000), boxing and harness racing from Ashburton
4.30 News Review
5.00 Emmerdale Farm
5.55 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 “We Are the World”: The Story Behind the Song

8.30 The Saturday Premiere Movie: Her Life as a Man (1984)
10.25 Entertainment This Week
11.20 News
11.25 Movie: The Little Giant (1933) (B&W)
12.45am Closedown

TV2
11.00am Royal Heritage (Rpt)
Noon Our World: The Desire of the Moth (Rpt)
1.00 Dig This
1.15 Fame (Rpt)
2.15 Saturday Afternoon Movie: 21 Days (1940) (B&W)
3.40 The People’s Court
4.05 More Real People
4.30 Sports Special: 1985 VFL Grand Final
Essendon v Hawthorn - live from the MCG, Melbourne
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Saturday Playhouse: The Chief Mourner
9.50 News
10.00 Sports Special
Includes yachting (Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race: The Start, live from Portsmouth) and rugby (Ranfurly Shield highlights)
12.00am Closedown

@TelevisionAU @FootyKick The 1985 VFL Grand Final, between Essendon and Hawthorn, was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and broadcast live via satellite on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) on the afternoon of Saturday 28 September 1985 at 4.30pm (NZ time).

Essendon defeated Hawthorn 26.14 (170) to 14.8 (92) in the Final.

Over on TV One, the documentary “We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song” was shown at 7.30pm. It was about the making of the song “We Are the World”, when 45 superstar recording artists united for the cause of Ethiopian famine relief as USA for Africa. Among them were Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick and Kenny Rogers just to name a few. Jane Fonda was the host.

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Today’s TV: Saturday 30 September 1989
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 My Little Pony 'n Friends
7.25 Flash Gordon
7.50 Cable Cook
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
10.40 The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (Rpt)
11.30 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
Noon The Virginian (Rpt)
1.15 Dad’s Army (Rpt)
1.50 Sport on One
Includes golf (Ryder Cup - Europe v USA), rugby league (Lion Red Cup semifinal - live) and raicing from Counties and Taranaki
5.45 Rugby Special (Final)
Auckland v Wellington (Ranfurly Shield), Otago v Canterbury - highlights
6.30 Network News and Sport
7.00 The Krypton Factor
7.30 Hi-de-Hi! (Rpt)
8.05 Last Night of the BBC Proms 1989
9.10 Movie: The Dam Busters (1954) (B&W) (Rpt)
Part of TV One’s “1939-1989 World War II: A Commemoration”
11.30 Network News
11.45 British Comedy Classics: Some Will, Some Won’t (1969)
1.30am Closedown

Channel Two
11.20am Teletext in Vision
11.35 Tagata Pasifika
Noon The Munsters (B&W) (Rpt)
12.25 Saturday Matinee: The Proud and Profane (1956) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.20 Julia Biuso Cooks Italian
2.50 Silver Spoons
3.20 Aaron’s Way
4.10 A Country Practice
5.00 Batman (Rpt)
5.30 Space Knights
6.00 RTR Countdown
6.30 Saturday Live (Starting tonight)
8.00 Lotto
8.05 Who’s the Boss? (Starting tonight)
8.35 Safer Sex
9.40 The Saturday Night Movie: St Elmo’s Fire (1985)
11.45 Simon & Simon (Final)
12.40am Closedown

@TelevisionAU @foxyrover Remember Grahame Bond - better known as Aunty Jack from “The Aunty Jack Show” (seen on the ABC in Australia during the early 1970s)? He was the host of TVNZ’s brand new (but short-lived) Saturday night entertainment show - “Saturday Live”.

Screening at 6.30pm on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2), Saturday Live was a weekly mix of music, skits, comedy routines and various competitions on Saturday night. It featured an array of local and international celebrities as special guests.

Joining him as regulars were Jackie Clarke, Kim Willoughby, Nigel Hurst (formerly of “3.45 Live!”) and Rory O’Donoghue (a British musician who had worked with Grahame Bond since the 1960s). Australian TV and film director Maurice Murphy was one of the show’s producers, along with Jim Burnett and Ginette McDonald (better known as Lynn of Tawa).

“Saturday Live” was followed at 8pm by the live Lotto draw, and both shows were produced out of Auckland.

At 8.35pm, Channel 2 screened an hour-long special called “Safer Sex”.

Produced by the Gibson Group in association with the Department of Health (now the Ministry of Health) for TVNZ, “Safer Sex” involved comedy sketches and discussion on the ‘pros and cons’ of teenage sex, together with the facts on New Zealand’s major sexually transmitted diseases, including the wart virus and Aids. Bryan Bruce, Tania Wehi, Chris Clarkson and Australian guest cartoonist Kaz Cooke hosted the all-important special.

Over on TV One (now TVNZ 1), Sir John Pritchard conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Chorus in “Last Night of the BBC Proms 1989”, a programme of rousing classical music from some of the great composers. It was shown at 8.05pm and the first half of the concert screened on Channel 2 during “Opus” at noon the next day.

The 1954 war film “The Dam Busters” followed at 9.10pm as part of TV One’s “1939-1989 World War II: A Commemoration”. It was a season of documentaries and classic movies coinciding with the start of World War II in 1939.

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Today’s TV: Monday 1 October 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Days of Our Lives
2.05 Couples
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sooty
3.15 Chorlton and the Wheelies
3.30 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
3.55 The Phoenix and the Red Carpet
4.25 Good Times
4.50 The Virginian
6.05 Dance Fever
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
8.05 Dateline Monday
8.40 The Paper Chase
9.30 News
9.40 Offerings
9.45 City of Angels
10.35 The Bob Newhart Show
11.00 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.00 Romper Room
3.30 Just One Child (Final)
3.35 Gramps
3.45 Ask Me a Question
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including:
4.00 Captain Caveman (Final)
4.30 Magic Circus Special
5.30 Welcome Back Kotter (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.28 Weather
6.30 Eight Is Enough
7.30 Against the Wind
8.30 The Professionals
9.30 Soap
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Monday Movie: Nick and Nora (1975)
11.50 Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown

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Today’s TV: Thursday 9 October 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Play School (Rpt)
9.25 The Moomins
9.30 Rocky Hollow
9.35 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
10.00 Crossroads
10.25 Jim’s Place
10.30 Don’t Ask Me (Rpt)
11.00 News
11.02 Wings (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 I Didn’t Know You Cared (Rpt)
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 Yearling
4.30 The Video Dispatch
5.00 Terrahawks (Rpt)
5.30 Moonfleet (Part 1)
6.00 Happy Days (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 Blackadder II (Part 2)
10.00 Pot Black 86 (Starting tonight)
11.00 News
11.05 The Invaders (Rpt) (Final)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
Noon Petticoat Junction (Rpt)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 More Real People (Rpt)
2.30 A Country Practice
3.20 Country Calendar (Rpt)
3.40 Thursday Afternoon Movie: Pawnee (1957)
5.15 The Young Doctors
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Highway to Heaven
7.30 Ripley’s Believe It or Not
8.30 Kate & Allie
9.00 The Bill
10.00 Eye Witness News
11.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 3 October 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.40 Rainbow (G)
10.55 Rupert the Bear (Rpt, G)
11.00 Edward VII (Rpt, G)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.05 Film on One: Mama’s Going to Buy You a Mockingbird (1988) (PGR)
1.50 Miss Marple (Rpt, AO)
2.50 Knots Landing
3.50 Too Close for Comfort (G)
4.20 Anything but Love (G)
4.50 Emmerdale (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 Party Political Broadcast
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Casualty (AO)
9.30 Perigo Election Special
10.30 One Network News
11.00 Dempsey and Makepeace
12.10am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Gumby Adventures
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 Foofur
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.30 The Smurfs
9.00 Teddy Drop-Ear (Rpt)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 Foreign Bodies (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 A Different World (G)
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 The Trollkins (G)
3.15 Peter Pan (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Alvin and the Chipmunks (G)
4.20 The Video Dispatch
5.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Family Ties (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours
7.30 Party Political Broadcast
8.00 Quantum Leap (PGR)
9.00 The Star Movie: Grandview, USA (1984)
10.55 Miami Vice (Rpt, AO)
12.00am Closedown

TV3
Noon Gems (PGR)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
2.30 Mighty Mouse (G)
3.00 Dennis the Menace (G)
3.30 DuckTales (G)
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Rpt, G)
4.30 Home and Away (G)
5.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Family Feud
7.30 Party Political Broadcast
8.00 The Billy T James Show (PGR)
8.30 Wednesday Night at the Movies: Kicks (1985)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Houston Knights (AO)
12.00am Closedown

Sky Sport
Noon Sky Sports Week (Rpt)1
1.00 Golf
Fred Meyer Challenge - round one
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Body Shaping
3.00 Baseball
5.00 Superbouts
Duran v Dejesus
6.00 Bowling
7.00 Surfing
Triple Crown - from Oahu
7.30 Waterskiing
8.00 Football
English Football League - highlights
9.00 Ferrari 1898-1988 (Rpt)
10.00 College Football
12.00am Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Carry On Henry (1972) (R16)
2.00 Lovesick (1983) (GA)
4.00 The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980) (G)
6.00 Purple Rain (1984) (R13)
8.00 Round Midnight (1986) (GA)
10.10 Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) (GY)
12.23am Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newsday
7.00 International Hour
7.30 BBC Early Evening News
8.00 Newsday
9.00 Early Prime
9.30 Showbiz Today
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon PrimeNews
1.00 Larry King Live
2.00 The World Now
3.00 Moneyline
3.30 CNN Sports
4.00 Newscene
5.00 Showbiz Today
5.30 Worldwide Update
6.30 CNN Sports
7.00 BBC 9pm News
7.30 Showbiz Today
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.00 Larry King Overnight
9.00 Crossfire
9.30 Newsbeat
10.30 CNN Marketwatch
11.00 Newstime
11.30 Business Day
12.00am CNN News Journal
1.00 Newsview
2.00 World Day
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 Newshour
5.00 Sonya Live (Continues to 6am)

@Leotv @OnAir In the lead-up to the 1990 general election, the opening addresses were simulcast on all three channels (TV One, Channel 2 and TV3) at 7.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 3 October 1990.

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No alternative!

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That’s pretty cool, democracy in action!

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 4 October 1978
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News (C)
12.05 The Young and the Restless (C)
12.35 Beauty and the Beast (C)
1.00 Good Day (C)
1.25 Days of Our Lives (C)
2.20 Crown Court (C)
2.45 Play School (C)
3.10 Nice One (C)
3.15 Lippy the Lion (Rpt) (C)
3.20 King Wilbur III (Rpt) (C)
3.40 The New Mickey Mouse Club (C)
4.05 Nice One (C)
4.10 Gilligan’s Island (C)
4.35 Lorne Greene’s Last of the Wild (C)
5.00 Nice One (C)
5.05 Tarzan (Rpt) (C)
6.00 Good Times (Rpt) (C)
6.30 News (C)
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Angels (C)
8.00 Barney Miller (C)
8.30 The Sweeney (C)
9.30 News (C)
9.45 Prime Time (C)
10.15 London Belongs to Me (Rpt) (C)
11.10 News and Weather (C)
11.15 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat (C), including:
3.00 Romper Room (C)
3.30 Spider-Man (C)
4.00 The Good Time Show (C), including:
4.00 The Flintstones (Rpt) (C)
4.30 Batman (Rpt) (C)
5.00 W-Three (C)
5.30 The Brady Bunch (C)
6.00 News at Six (C)
6.30 Six-Thirty Special: The Fawn Story (C)
7.30 Movie of the Week: Genghis Khan (1965) (C)
10.00 News at Ten (C)
10.30 Sez Les (Rpt) (C)
11.00 S.W.A.T. (C)
12.00am Closedown (Time approximate)

(C) = In colour unless otherwise specified.

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Today’s TV: Saturday 5 October 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm News and Weather (C)
2.05 Grandstand
Includes racing from Wingatui and motor racing from Ruapuna
4.50 F Troop (C)
5.17 News (C)
5.22 Star Trek (C)
5.51 Wild Australia (Final) (C)
6.24 Tricks of the Rade
6.29 The New Dick Van Dyke Show (C)
7.00 Network News
7.22 Regional Weather and News
AKTV2: Affairs: Life in the North
WNTV1: Newsview
CHTV3: The South Tonight and Focus
DNTV2: The South on Saturday
7.47 Spring and Autumn (C)
8.17 Boney (C)
9.15 Newsbrief (C)
9.17 Movie: Hombre (1967) (C)
11.21 Late News and Weather (C)
11.27 Big Time Wrestling
Closedown when programme ends

(C) = In colour unless otherwise specified

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Today’s TV: Saturday 6 October 1984
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.00am The Muppet Show (Rpt)
8.30 What Now
10.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
10.55 Star Trek (Rpt)
11.50 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Montana (1954) (Rpt)
1.20 Sport on One
Includes Ranfurly Shield rugby (Canterbury v Bay of Plenty), rugby league (Tusk Cup, semifinal ohe), racing from Ellerslie and football (Swiss Maid League Final)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Hollywood or Bust
8.00 McPhail and Gadsby
8.30 The Saturday Premiere Movie: The Million Dollar Face (1981)
10.25 Entertainment This Week
11.25 Strangers (Rpt)
12.15am News
12.20 Closedown

TV2
Noon Our World: Cracking the Egg (Rpt)
12.45 The Best of Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Dig This
1.15 The Powers of Matthew Star (Rpt)
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Movie: That Midnight Kiss (1949) (Rpt)
3.40 Computers in Society
3.55 The People’s Court
4.15 More Real People
4.40 The Elegant Shed (Rpt)
5.05 Emmerdale Farm
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Nature Watch (Rpt)
6.50 Preview 2
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 The Little World of Don Camillo
8.25 An Audience with Kenneth Williams
9.40 News
9.55 World Cinema: Escape from Segovia (1981)
A Spanish film with English subtitles
11.45 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Monday 7 October 1996
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.20 The Last Days of the Wall (Rpt)
7.00 BBC World News
7.20 Window on Europe (Rpt)
7.55 Te Karere (Rpt)
8.05 eTV, including:
8.05 The National Business Review Report
8.40 Management: Everybody’s Business (Rpt, G)
9.10 Beneath Indian Skies (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon Midday
1.00 Court TV
2.00 A Family at War (Rpt, G)
3.05 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.25 Johnson and Friends (Rpt, G)
3.35 The Black Stallion (Rpt, G)
4.05 Doctor at Large (Rpt, G)
4.40 Te Karere
4.50 Give Us a Clue (G)
5.25 EastEnders (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes Special: Leaders’ Debate
8.35 Dangerfield (AO)
9.40 Tonight
10.00 The Betrayal (AO)
11.30 Matlock (AO)
12.30am Infomercials
1.30 BBC World, including:
1.30 Correspondent: Africa
2.00 BBC World News
2.15 World Business Report
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
3.30 Time Out: Film '96 (Rpt)
4.00 BBC World Headlines
4.15 World Focus: The Money Programme (Rpt)
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Time Out: Tomorrow’s World (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.10am Video Power (Rpt, G)
6.35 The Hurricanes (Rpt, G)
7.00 Action Man (Rpt, G)
7.30 Sailor Moon (Rpt, G)
8.00 Samurai Pizza Cats (Rpt, G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (Rpt, G)
9.30 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.00 Good Morning
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 The Ricki Lake Show (AO)
3.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
3.30 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs (Rpt, G)
4.00 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Flintstones (Rpt, G)
5.00 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Monkees (Starting today) (Rpt, G)
6.00 Sister Sister (Starting tonight) (G)
6.30 Home and Away (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Ned and Stacey (PGR)
8.00 Almost Perfect (PGR)
8.30 Chicago Hope (AO)
9.30 Fire (AO)
10.30 Roseanne (Starting tonight)
Weeknight reruns on TVNZ begin with episodes first shown on TV3 in 1989
11.05 The Late Show with David Letterman
12.00am South Beach (AO)
1.00 Full Frontal (Rpt, AO)
2.00 Silk Stalkings (Rpt, AO)
2.55 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt, G)
3.20 Love and War (Rpt, PGR)
3.50 The Zone (Rpt, G)
4.15 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.45 You Asked for It (Rpt, G)
5.10 All in the Family (Rpt, G)
5.40 Kenneth Copeland (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.30am Aunties’ Alphabet (G)
6.35 The Magic Box (G)
7.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
7.05 You and Me (G)
7.30 Garfield (G)
8.00 Lost in Space (G)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 Cucina Amore (G)
10.30 The Love Connection (PGR)
11.00 Entertainment Tonight (G)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 Melrose Place (PGR)
3.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
3.05 You and Me (G)
3.30 Disney Adventure Afternoon, including:
3.30 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (G)
4.00 Bonkers (G)
4.30 Gargoyles (G)
5.00 Blossom (G)
5.30 Family Matters (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Beyond 2000 (G)
7.30 20/20
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Her Hidden Truth (1995) (AO)
10.25 Nightline
10.55 Mobil Motorsport Show
11.25 Herman’s Head (PGR)
11.55 World News Tonight
12.25am Infomercials
1.25 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.15 General Hospital (PGR)
3.00 Generations (PGR)
3.25 Home Shopping (Continues to 6.30am)

HBO
11.30am This Week on HBO
Noon Night Eyes (1993) (R16)
1.45 M Butterfly (1993) (M)
3.30 Drat Pack (1980) (G)
4.00 Missing Parents (1994) (G)
5.35 Backtrax: Ash/Garbage
6.15 The Saint of Fort Washington (1994) (M)
8.00 HBO Behind the Scenes
The Making of “Up Close and Personal”
8.30 Sony Monday Night Action: True Lies (1994) (RP16)
10.50 Jimmy Hollywood (1994) (M)
12.45am Hear No Evil (1993) (M)
2.20 Closedown

CNN
6.30am Moneyweek
7.00 World Report
8.30 BBC News
9.30 Insight
10.00 Style with Elsa Klensch
10.30 World Sport
11.00 World View
11.30 Future Watch
Noon Diplomatic License
12.30 Earth Matters
1.00 PrimeNews
1.30 Global View
2.00 CNN Presents
3.00 The World Today
4.30 Pinnacle
6.30 Global View
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Larry King Weekend (Rpt)
8.30 TVNZ News (Rpt)
9.30 World Sport
10.00 CNN Presents
11.30 American Edition
11.45 Q & A
12.00am World News Asia
12.30 World Sport
1.00 World News Asia
1.30 Business Asia
2.00 Larry King (Rpt)
3.30 World Sport
4.30 Business Asia
5.30 Q & A (Contineus to 6.45am)

Sky Sport
7.00am ESPN Direct - Speedweek
7.30 Motorsport
IndyCar Explained with Bobby Rahl
8.00 Major League Baseball
American Divisional Series, game four
11.00 Sports Almanac
Power
11.30 International Sportscenter
Noon NFL Primetime
1.00 NFL Football
Cincinnati Bengals v Houston Oilers, live
4.00 Sky Sport - Mountain Biking
Norba Downhill and Dual Slalom
4.45 Motorsport
NASCAR Winston Cup from the Charlotte Motor Speedway
6.45 Football
World Cup qualifier, Switzerland v Finland
8.30 Motorsport
Late Model Stocks
9.00 Inside Drag Racing
9.30 Golf
PGA Tour - Las Vegas Invitational, final round
12.00am ESPN Direct - Brazilian Football
2.00 Major League Baseball (Continues to 7am)
American Divisional Series - leagues A and B, game four

Discovery
6.00am Invention
6.30 Next Step
7.00 A World Away
8.00 The Adventurers
8.30 World Wide Guide
9.00 Those Incredible Animals
9.30 Mac & Mutley
10.00 Nature Watch
10.30 Zoo Life with Jack Hanna
11.00 Great Books
Noon Discovery Showcase
1.00 Equinox
2.00 Discovery Profile Series
3.00 Passport to Adventure
3.30 World Wide Guide
4.00 Trackside Channel
8.00 Archaeology
8.30 Adventures in Diving
9.00 The Big Byte
9.30 The New Explorers
10.00 The Natural World
11.00 The Century of Warfare
12.00am Discover Magazine
1.00 World of Mummies
1.30 High Adventure
2.00 Invention
2.30 Next Step
3.00 Wings
4.00 Beyond 2000
5.00 The Big Byte
5.30 The New Explorers (Continues to 6am)

Orange
7.00am Just Juice
10.00 Rolonda
11.00 Vanessa
11.30 Emergency Call
Noon Coronation Street
12.30 Brookside
1.00 On the Buses
1.30 Supermarket Sweep
2.00 The City
2.30 Prisoner
3.00 Jerry Springer
4.00 Leeza
5.00 Charles in Charge
5.30 Growing Pains
6.00 Who’s the Boss?
6.30 The City
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 Medics (Starting tonight)
8.30 Orange at the Movies: Thin Ice (1981) (PG)
10.00 Jerry Springer Late Night
11.00 Night Court
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Continues to 7am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, CTV, Southern
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.20 The Last Days of the Wall (Rpt)
7.00 BBC World News
7.20 Window on Europe (Rpt)
8.00 BBC World Headlines
8.05 Timewatch
9.00 BBC World News
9.30 Time Out: Tomorrow’s World (Rpt)
10.00 Home Shopping
11.30 Marketplace (Rpt)
Noon Midday
Simulcast with TV One
1.00 BBC Newsroom
4.00 Tomorrow’s World
CTV: Happy Days
4.30 Happy Days
CTV: Marketplace (until 5.30pm)
5.00 Marketplace
5.30 Local News
ATV: ATV News
Coast to Coast: Coast to Coast News
Capital City: Capital Nightly News
CTV: CTV News
Southern: Southern News
6.00 One Network News
Simulcast with TV One
7.00 BBC News Day
Southern: Southern News Update
7.30 60 Minutes: The Foreign Edition
8.30 Monday Documentary: Edward VIII: The Traitor King
9.30 The South Bank Show
10.30 Marketplace (Rpt)
CTV: Marketplace (Rpt; until 11.30pm), followed by Holmes, then Welcome to Canterbury from midnight until 11.00am
11.00 Holmes
11.30 BBC World
ATV: Welcome to Auckland from 11.55am until BBC World resumes at 1.55am
12.00am BBC World, including:
12.05 BBC Newsdesk
1.00 BBC World Headlines
1.05 Correspondent: Africa (Rpt)
2.00 BBC World News
2.15 World Business Report
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
3.30 Time Out: Film '96
4.00 BBC World Headlines
4.15 World Focus: The Money Programme (Rpt)
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Time Out: Tomorrow’s World (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

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Did’nt Realised TV3 aired General Hospital back then.

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TV2 aired The Bold and The Beautiful most of the 90s after it was first shown on TV3. Days Of Our Lives moved to Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) from TV One start of the decade because daytime soaps is only competing TV2 vs TV3.

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Didn’t know Good Morning aired on TV2 back in the 90’s.

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@Leotv “Good Morning” was first shown on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) in early 1996 as a 90-minute programme, running from 10.30am on weekdays. By mid-year, the programme was extended in duration to two hours and moved to a 10am start.

“Good Morning” moved to TV One (now TVNZ 1) by mid-1997 and aired on that channel until it ended in 2015.

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Today’s TV: Thursday 8 October 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.45am The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.05 Play School (Rpt)
11.30 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.15 The Young and the Restless
1.15 Doctor in Charge (Rpt)
1.40 Days of Our Lives
2.40 Prisoner
3.35 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (Rpt)
4.35 German Scene (Rpt)
4.50 Crossroads
5.15 Emmerdale Farm
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H
6.30 Network News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 Fast Forward
8.30 Three Up, Two Down
9.00 Close Up
10.00 Cagney & Lacey
11.00 The Prisoner (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

Network Two
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
12.55 Fame
1.40 The Brothers (Rpt)
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.57 After School, including:
3.59 Alvin and the Chipmunks
4.32 The Edison Twins
5.00 Shazam!
5.30 Terry and the Gunrunners (Starting today) (Part 1)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Starman
7.30 Every Second Counts (Starting tonight)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

8.00 Gloss
9.00 Stingray
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, “Worldwatch” and a news update
11.00 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

@OnAir @Leotv @TV4 @nztv @Horomono @TelevisionAU @theGradyConnell @anon36025973 One of New Zealand’s most controversial broadcasters, Paul Henry, made his television debut as the host of a new TVNZ game show, “Every Second Counts”. It aired on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) at 7.30pm on the evening of Thursday 8 October 1987.

“Every Second Counts” was a game show where three married couples competed in a game of answering questions, with the goal of earning seconds that would later be used in the bonus round at the end of the show. It was based on the American and British game shows of the same name.

Over on TV One (now TVNZ 1), transmission would end at midnight after showing an episode of Patrick McGoohan’s “The Prisoner”, according to the NZ Listener. However, the channel closed down about four minutes earlier (i.e. 11.56pm) and the closing sequence, via YouTube, consisted of a preview of Friday night’s programmes and a last look at the clock. The announcer in that clip was Mike Bodnar, who had worked at TVNZ as anchor of the Wellington-based regional news programme “Today Tonight”, continuity announcer and field director.

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 8 October 1984
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child
Noon News
12.05 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
3.55 After School, including:
3.55 School Story (Middleton Grange, Christchurch)
4.00 Mickey & Donald
4.30 Video Dispatch
5.00 Nobody’s Hero (Part 2) (Rpt)
5.30 Shazam!
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Starquest
8.00 A Dancer Must Dance
8.30 Inside Straight - “Card Game” (ep 7)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

9.30 Fresh Fields
10.00 The Yellow Rose
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Eight Is Enough (Rpt)
4.50 Animals, Animals, Animals
5.10 That Girl
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere
For East Coast viewers this bulletin screened on TV One
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans
7.30 Hart to Hart
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: Countdown to a Coronary
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Van der Valk (Rpt)
11.00 Hawaii Five-O
11.55 Closedown

Episode seven of the 10-part TVNZ drama series, “Inside Straight”, aired on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 8 October 1984.

“Inside Straight” was filmed on location in Wellington, often after dark, and based around the trials and tribulations of Steve Keenan (played by Phillip Gordon, who soon won fame as a conman in the 1985 film “Came a Hot Friday”), the everyman learning the ways of the city from taxi driver George MacLean (Roy Billing).

In the episode entitled “Card Game”, it was the main event - a high-stakes card game (as the episode title suggested), and Steve needed to raise $5,000. But trouble struck, especially for Sylvia (Joanne Simpson), when conman Nick Wilde hit the city. The role of Nick was played by the late Bruno Lawrence, whose credits included “Smash Palace” and “The Quiet Earth”.

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Today’s TV: Friday 9 October 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.45am The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.05 Play School (Rpt)
11.30 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.15 The Young and the Restless
1.15 Rising Damp (Rpt)
1.40 Days of Our Lives
2.35 Knots Landing
3.30 The Enigma Files (Rpt)
4.25 German Scene (Rpt)
4.50 Crossroads
5.15 Emmerdale Farm
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H
6.30 Network News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The District Nurse
8.30 Holiday '87
9.00 Fourth Estate
9.15 Kaleidoscope
10.00 The Friday Night Movie: Hawke and O’Keefe - Shooting Stars (1983)
11.50 Closedown

Network Two
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 The Friday Matinee: A Hatful of Rain (1957) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.30 Play School
2.55 Puddle Lane
3.10 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
3.20 The Telebugs
3.30 The Monchhichis
3.56 After School, including:
4.05 Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
4.35 Supergran
5.00 The Henderson Kids II (Final)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Head of the Class (Starting tonight)
7.00 Growing Pains
7.30 TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes
8.30 Night Court
9.00 Open All Hours (Rpt)
9.30 Brothers
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, “Worldwatch” and a news update
11.00 Heartbeat City
12.00am Closedown

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