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Today’s TV: Sunday 10 October 1982
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am The XII Commonwealth Games (Final)
Highlights from the closing day’s events and the closing ceremony
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.50 Tomorrow’s Report
12.55 Agreport
1.10 Dig This
1.25 Of Course You Can Do It
1.55 Sunday Afternoon Movie: Young Man with a Horn (1950) (B&W)
3.45 The All New Pink Panther Show
4.05 Woolly Valley
4.10 The Wonderful World of Disney
The Apple Dumpling Gang (Part 1)
5.00 Top Dance '82
5.30 Spot On
6.00 The Herd
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Louise and Friends (Final)
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 The Gate of Eden (Part 2)
8.50 News
9.00 Newsmakers
9.30 Play of the Week: Dalhousie’s Luck
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: Rhubarb (1951) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.30 The Bob Newhart Show (Rpt)
1.55 Opus
3.35 Our Little Town
4.00 Made by Hand
4.15 The Flame Trees of Thika (Part 1) (Rpt)
5.05 Unfamiliar Faces
5.30 With One Voice
5.55 News
6.00 Our World: The Town Fox - Villain or Victim?
6.45 The Week with 2
7.00 Three’s Company
7.25 Sunday Movie: And Baby Makes Six (1979)
9.00 Radio with Pictures
9.45 The Sunday Horrors: Trilogy of Terror (1975) (Rpt)
10.55 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 11 October 1994
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.50am Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 Rush Limbaugh (G)
7.30 eTV: Videotech (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 eTV, including:
8.30 Race to Save the Planet (Rpt, G)
9.30 50 Forward (G)
9.55 UK Today (Rpt, G)
10.00 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Infatuation (G)
11.30 Live It Up (G)
Noon The Flying Doctors (Rpt, G)
1.05 George & Mildred (Rpt, G)
1.40 CBS Evening News
2.10 Sally Jessy Raphaël
3.10 Ricki Lake (PGR)
4.05 Families
4.40 Take the High Road (G)
5.10 Te Karere
5.20 The Good Life (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.35 Crimewatch
9.35 Side by Side (G)
10.10 Crimewatch Update
10.15 PrimeTime
10.45 Screen One: Selling Hitler (Part 4) (AO)
11.50 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: A New Lease of Death (Part 1) (Rpt, AO)
12.55am Saracen (Rpt, AO)
2.00 Closedown

Channel 2
6.25am Hallo Spencer (Rpt, G)
6.55 Alvin and the Chipmunks (Rpt, G)
7.25 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Rpt, G)
7.55 My Little Pony 'n Friends (Rpt, G)
8.30 Kitty Cats (Rpt, G)
8.45 Sesame Street (G)
9.40 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
10.00 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
11.00 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Chatterbox (G)
2.50 Coconuts (Rpt, G)
2.55 The Greedysaurus Gang (G)
3.00 The Son of a Gunn Show, including:
3.15 Widget (Rpt, G)
4.00 Doug (Rpt, G)
4.30 Conan the Adventurer (G)
5.00 Home and Away (G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
6.30 Cheers (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 The Nanny (PGR)
8.00 Seinfeld (PGR)
8.30 The Tuesday Night Movie: Police Academy 2 - Their First Assignment (1985) (Rpt, AO)
10.20 Newsnight
10.50 Caltex Motorsport on 2
11.50 Silk Stalkings (AO)
12.50am Closedown

TV3
6.30am World News Tonight
7.00 The Muppet Show Command Performances (G)
7.30 Darkwing Duck (G)
8.00 My Three Sons (G)
8.30 You and Me (G)
8.55 Treasures Parent Time (G)
9.00 You Bet Your Life (G)
9.30 Coach (G)
10.00 The Infomercial Hour
11.00 What’s Cooking? (G)
11.30 The Graham Kerr Show (G)
Noon Donahue (G)
1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
2.00 Nurses (PGR)
2.30 General Hospital (PGR)
3.30 Treasures Parent Time (G)
3.35 You and Me (G)
4.00 The Addams Family (B&W) (G)
4.30 Get Smart (G)
5.00 Hogan’s Heroes (G)
5.30 The Price Is Right (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 Living Earth (G)
8.00 Animals and Us (G)
8.30 Tuesday Night at the Movies: Danielle Steel’s Heartbeat (1993)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Mancuso FBI (AO)
12.00am The Fugitive (B&W) (G)
1.00 Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Senior PGA Golf
Trans America Classic - final round
7.54 Sky Sport - Football
English Premier League 1994/95 - Coventry v Ipswich
10.00 ESPN Direct - IndyCar World Series
Toyota Monterey Grand Prix
Noon Brazilian Football
2.00 Sky Sport - Senior PGA Golf
Trans America Classic - final round
3.30 DB Draught Rugby
The National Provincial Championships - second division, second semifinal
5.15 Snooker
Women’s World Championships
6.15 Football
English Premier League 1994/95 - Coventry v Ipswich
8.00 Sky Sportsweek
9.00 World Cup in Athletics
10.00 European Soccer Show
Includes highlights of Sporting Gijon v Barcelona
11.00 Motorsport
Saab Pro Series
11.30 Max Out
12.00am ESPN Direct - Horse Racing
Oaktree Invitational
1.00 Motorsport
IMSA Exxon Supreme
2.00 Motoworld
2.30 Triathlon
*1994 USTF National Amateur Championships
3.00 American Football (Continues to 6am)
NFL - New York Giants v Minnesota Vikings

Sky News (CNN)
7.00am BBC Early Evening News
7.30 World News
8.00 International Hour
9.00 World News
10.00 World Business Today Update
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.00 The World Today
Noon Moneyline
12.30 Crossfire
1.00 PrimeNews
2.00 Larry King Live
3.00 World News
4.30 Showbiz Today
5.00 World News
6.30 Moneyline
7.00 BBC 9pm News
7.30 Business Asia
8.00 World News
8.30 TVNZ News
9.00 Larry King
10.00 Crossfire
10.30 The World Report
11.00 World News
11.30 Business Morning
12.00am World News
12.30 Business Day
1.00 World News
1.30 Business Asia
2.00 Larry King
3.00 World News
4.30 Business Asia
5.00 World News (Continues to 7am)

Sky Movies (HBO)
Noon Shadows and Fog (1991) (GA)
1.30 Death Warmed Up (1984) (RP13)
3.00 Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) (GY)
4.30 All That Heaven Allows (1955) (G)
6.00 For the Boys (1991) (GA)
8.30 Showcase International: Journey of Hope (1990) (GA)
A Turkish film with English subtitles
10.30 Radio Flyer (1992) (GY)
12.30am Sylvia (1985) (GA)
2.05 Closedown

The Australian game show “The Price Is Right”, hosted by Larry Emdur, screened on TV3 (now Three) at 5.30pm as a lead-in to the news. Another Australian production, “What’s Cooking” (with Geoff Jansz), screened at 11am. Both productions had aired on the Nine Network.

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Today’s TV: Sunday 12 October 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.00am The Jetsons (Rpt)
8.20 Warner Bros Cartoons
8.30 Praise Be
9.00 To the Manor Born (Rpt)
9.30 Big League Soccer
10.20 British Football Results
10.30 Weekend
Noon Agreport
12.15 Dig This (Rpt)
12.30 The Deep End
12.55 Spaceflight (Part 1)
1.50 Sunday Afternoon Movie: I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973) (Rpt)
3.05 Great Railway Journeys of the World (Rpt)
4.05 Opus
5.05 Amateur Naturalist
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Sing Out
6.30 News
6.45 Koha
7.00 Entertainment Showcase: Variety Street
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Yes, Prime Minister (Series premiere)
8.30 Miss Marple
9.20 News
9.30 The Crosbie Report
10.00 Play of the Week: Radio Pictures
10.55 News
11.00 Danger Man (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown

TV2
11.00am Family Hour Festival: Barriers (Rpt)
11.50 Science International
11.55 Sport
Noon America’s Cup: Challenge Round - Race Report
12.15 The Love Boat
1.30 Jazz Seen (Rpt)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
2.20 Sunday Grandstand
Includes rugby league (Tusk Cup final), motorsport (Michigan 500) and squash (NZ Open Squash - men’s final)
5.55 News
6.00 The Wonderful World of Disney (Rpt)
The Young Runaways (Part 1)
6.45 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Adventurer
7.25 Sunday Movie: To Be or Not to Be (1984)
9.05 Viewfinder
9.35 Mission: Impossible (Rpt)
10.25 America’s Cup: Challenge Round - Race Report
10.30 The Sunday Horrors: Deadly Blessing (1981)
12.15am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 13 October 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.55am Film on One: A Song Is Born (1948) (G)
10.40 Kilroy (G)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News
1.00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (G)
2.00 Brush Strokes (Rpt, G)
2.40 E Street
3.40 Home and Away
4.10 I Love Lucy (B&W) (Rpt, G)
4.45 Take the High Road (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.30 Jeopardy!
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: Class of '87
9.30 Phoenix
10.30 Tonight
11.00 Chancer (AO)
12.10am Film on One: Just One of the Guys (1985) (Rpt, AO)
2.05 Closedown

Channel 2
6.20am Jungle Tales (G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (Rpt, G)
7.25 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 Charlie Chalk (Rpt, G)
8.45 eTV Playdays (Rpt, G)
9.05 Lamb Chop’s Play Along (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Jase TV, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 King Rollo (G)
3.10 Revenge of the T-Set (G)
3.30 The Son of a Gunn Show
4.00 Dinky Di’s (Rpt, G)
4.30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
6.00 Neighbours (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
8.00 Cheers (Rpt)
8.30 Police Rescue (PGR)
9.30 Sex (AO)
10.30 Late Night Studs (PGR)
11.00 Lightning Force (PGR)
11.30 The Man in the Family (PGR)
12.00am Wiseguy (Rpt, AO)
1.05 Closedown

TV3
Noon Parent Time (G)
12.05 The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
1.05 Donahue (AO)
2.05 Generations (PGR)
2.35 You and Me (G)
3.00 3 PM, including:
3.10 Widget (Rpt, G)
3.45 Voltron (Rpt, G)
4.25 Transformers (G)
5.00 Get Smart (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Addams Family (B&W) (Rpt, G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 The Price Is Right (G)
7.30 Nurses (PGR)
8.00 Issues (PGR)
8.30 Murphy Brown (Rpt, G)
9.00 Empty Nest (PGR)
9.30 3 Special: Elle
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Away Laughing (Rpt, PGR)
12.00am Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - PGA Golf
Las Vegas Invitational
8.00 Baseball
Major League Baseball playoffs - American League West, game five (live)
11.00 Checkered Flag
11.30 Sportsweek
12.30pm PGA Golf
Las Vegas Invitational
2.30 Sky Sport - Bodies in Motion
3.00 Bodyshaping
3.30 Tennis
Australian Indoor Championships - final
6.00 Motorsport
IndyCar World Series - Marlboro Challenge
7.00 Sky Sportsweek
8.00 PGA Golf
Las Vegas Invitational - the final round
9.30 Sportraits
George Best/Monica Seles
10.00 Dutch Football
11.30 Triathlon
From Hammond, Indiana
12.00am ESPN Direct - Volleyball
*Women’s Pro Beach Volleyball
1.00 Motorsport
IndyCar World Series - Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix
3.00 Sportscenter
4.00 Amazing Games
Indonesia
5.00 Bodies in Motion
5.30 Bodyshaping (Continues to 6am)

Sky News
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
7.00am BBC News
8.00 International Hour
10.00 World Business Today Update
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.00 The World Today
Noon Moneyline
12.30 Crossfire
2.00 Larry King
4.30 Showbiz Today
6.00 Crier & Company
6.30 Moneyline
7.00 BBC News
8.00 TVNZ News
8.45 Newsroom
9.00 Larry King
10.00 Moneyline
10.30 Crossfire
11.30 Business Morning
12.30am Business Day
1.30 Asia Business
2.00 Larry King
3.00 World Day
4.30 Crier & Company

Sky Movies
Noon We’re No Angels (1989) (GA)
2.00 Octopussy (1983) (GA)
4.15 Freeze Frame (1989) (GY)
5.35 Jaffas “Showtime”
6.00 Funny About Love (1990) (GA)
8.00 The Professor (1986) (R16)
10.30 Tango and Cash (1990) (R13)
12.15am A Show of Force (1990) (R16)
1.44 Closedown

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Extra: Friday 12 October 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.40 Sooty (G)
11.00 Edward VII (Final) (Rpt, G)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.05 Film on One: Pygmalion (1983) (Rpt, G)
2.00 Miss Marple (Rpt, G)
2.55 JJ Starbuck (Starting today) (Rpt, PGR)
3.50 One of the Boys (Part 4) (G)
4.20 FM (G)
4.50 Emmerdale (G)
5.20 North and South Island Programmes
NORTH
5.20 Te Karere
5.30 Hard Copy
SOUTH
5.20 Bugs Bunny (G)
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 Flying Squad (PGR)
8.30 An Evening with Sir Howard Morrison (G)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

9.35 No Job for a Lady (Part 2)
10.05 One Network News
10.35 The Two Ronnies (PGR)
11.40 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (PGR)
12.10am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Gumby Adventures (G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 Foofur
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.30 The Smurfs
9.00 Captain Pugwash (Rpt, G)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 Foreign Bodies (Final)
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)
3.00 Will Vinton’s Claymation Classics (Final) (G)
3.10 The Ratties
3.15 Peter Pan (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 The Droids
4.20 Strangers (Part 1) (Rpt, G) - click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

5.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Family Ties (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours
7.30 Richmond Hill (G)
8.30 Beyond 2000 (G)
9.30 Married… with Children (Rpt, PGR)
10.00 Sledge Hammer! (Rpt, PGR)
10.35 Newsbreak
10.40 Unsolved Mysteries (PGR)
11.40 Radio with Pictures
12.45am Werewolf (Rpt, AO)
1.15 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 and Friends (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 Airwolf (PGR)
8.30 The A-Team (Starting tonight) (Rpt)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie: Freelance (1979)
1.00am Closedown

Sky Sport
Noon Top Rank Boxing
1.00 Bodybuilding
USA Championship
1.30 Magic Years in Sport: 1973
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Body Shaping
3.00 Baseball
5.00 Pro Bowling
Hammond Open
6.00 SANFL - Aussie Rules
Grand Final
7.00 ATP Tennis
8.00 Welsh Rugby
9.30 Golf
Las Vegas Invitational - round two
11.30 Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Sonya Live
7.00 Newsday
7.30 BBC Early Evening News
8.00 International Hour
9.00 Newsday
10.00 Early Prime
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.00 The World Today
Noon Moneyline
12.30 Crossfire
1.00 PrimeNews
2.00 Larry King Live
3.00 CNN Evening News
4.00 Moneyline
4.30 CNN Sports
5.00 Newsnight
6.00 Showbiz Today
6.30 Newsnight Update
7.00 BBC 9pm News
7.30 CNN Sports
8.00 Newsnight UPdate
8.45 CNN Newsroom
9.00 Larry King Overnight
10.00 Crossfire
10.30 Early Bird News
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Business Morning
12.00am Daybreak
12.30 Business Day
1.00 Daybreak
2.00 CNN Morning News
3.00 World Day
4.00 Daywatch
5.00 Newshour (Continues to 6am)

Sky Movies
Noon Eye Witness (1950) (R16)
2.00 SOB (1981) (GA)
4.00 The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980) (G)
6.00 Second Sight: A Love Story (1984) (G)
8.00 Insignificance (1985) (R13)
10.00 The Color Purple (1985) (GA)
12.30am Things Are Tough All Over (1982) (R16)
2.05 Closedown

@OnAir In the year of his knighthood, the late Sir Howard Morrison got to fulfil a long-held dream - playing with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. A Sir Howard Morrison special - recorded at the Aotea Centre in Auckland - was broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8.30pm on the evening of Friday 12 October 1990.

Sir Howard was joined by the late, great Billy T James as they sang a cover version of “My Old Man’s an All Black”, and surrounded by former All Black Buck Shelford to lead the haka alongside Temuera Morrison.

You can watch one of Sir Howard’s classic concerts via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

Over on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2), Margaret Mahy’s “Strangers” - a six-part children’s drama of mystery and magic from TVNZ - was being repeated on Fridays as part of “3.45 Live!”. The series featured a young cast which included Martin Henderson (in his screen debut), Hamish McFarlane (fresh from Vincent Ward’s “The Navigator”), Joel Tobeck and deaf actor Sonia Pivac. You can watch all episodes of “Strangers” via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

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Today’s TV: Thursday 14 October 1976
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt) (C)
Noon Lunchbox (C)
12.05 The Young and the Restless (C)
12.30 Beauty and the Beast (C)
1.00 Today at One (C)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (C)
2.00 The Zoo Gang (Rpt) (C)
2.55 Gizago (C)
3.00 Play School (C)
3.30 The Electric Company (C)
4.00 Huckleberry Hound (C)
4.30 Gilligan’s Island (C)
5.00 Land of the Giants (C)
5.55 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Rpt) (C)
6.30 News (C)
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street (C)
7.30 University Challenge (C)
8.00 M-A-S-H (C)
8.30 Police Woman (C)
9.30 Tonight (C)
10.00 Adam’s Rib (C)
10.30 News and Weather (C)
10.35 Closedown

TV2
1.00pm Medical Centre (C)
1.50 Dinah! (C)
2.40 Search for Tomorrow (C)
3.00 Chicaboom! (C), including:
3.00 Rainbow (C)
3.15 Romper Room (C)
Followed by Chicaboom Special (C)
4.30 Here’s Andy (C), including:
4.30 A Little Bit of Booma (C)
4.35 Daniel Boone (C)
5.25 Stefan Grossman on Guitar (C)
5.30 Get Smart (C)
6.00 News at Six (C)
6.30 Batman (C)
7.00 Dad’s Army (C)
7.30 Chico and the Man (C)
8.00 Thursday Star Movie: The Looking Glass War (1970) (C)
10.00 News at Ten (C)
10.30 Closedown

(C) = In colour unless otherwise specified

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Today’s TV: Sunday 15 October 1995
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.25 Time Out: The Clothes Show
7.00 BBC World News
7.20 World News Week
8.00 eTV, including:
8.00 Get Together (Final)
8.30 Asia Dynamic
9.00 Praise Be (G)
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
Tala Pasifika - Day in the Life
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

10.00 Waka Huia
11.00 Marae
Noon Agri Tech 2000
12.30 Quantum (Rpt, G)
1.00 Palmers Garden Show (Rpt, G)
2.00 One World of Sport: Countrywide Bank Grandstand
Includes triathlon (Triathlon World Cup - round one) and rugby (Air New Zealand NPC - first division final, live)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Our World: In Wildest Africa (G)
7.30 Heartbeat (G)
8.35 Montana Sunday Theatre: Dead Certs
Click the NZ On Screen link below

9.45 The Plant (PGR)
11.30 The Ed Sullivan Show (Rpt, G)
12.00am 999 (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 BBC World, including:
*1.00 BBC World Headlines
1.05 Under the Flag
2.00 BBC World Headlines
2.05 Breakfast with Frost
3.00 BBC World News
3.25 Time Out: Top Gear (Rpt)
4.00 BBC World Headlines
4.05 Horizon
5.00 BBC World News
5.25 Time Out: The Travel Show (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.05am Hallo Spencer (Rpt, G)
6.30 Captain Zed and the Zee Zone (Rpt, G)
6.50 Avenger Penguins (G)
7.15 The Son of a Gunn Show (G)
7.35 Dreamstone (Rpt, G)
8.00 What Now, including:
8.25 Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? (Rpt, G)
10.15 Batman: The Animated Series (Rpt, PGR)
10.40 The Adventures of Tintin (Rpt, G)
11.00 Top of the Pops
11.30 Music Nation (Final)
Noon EastEnders (PGR)
1.05 Behind the Scenes: “A Walk in the Clouds” (G)
1.20 Sunday Cinema: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) (Rpt, PGR)
4.00 2 Sports Action: Rugby League World Cup 1995
Australia v Fiji and England v South Africa - highlights
5.00 Full House (G)
5.30 Step by Step (G)
6.00 Sunday Family Movie: FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) (G)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Sunday Premiere Movie: Made in America (1993) (AO)
10.40 The Late Movie: Best Seller (1987) (Rpt, AO)
12.35am Rescue 111 (aka Rescue 911)
1.35 Infomercial
2.35 Duet (PGR)
3.00 You Asked for It (G)
3.40 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.10 Ricki Lake (Rpt, AO)
5.00 Paradise Beach (Rpt, G)
5.30 2 Sports Action: Rugby League World Cup 1995
Wales v Western Samoa - live (Continues to 8am)

TV3
6.00am Short Sportz (G)
6.25 Aunties’ Alphabet (G)
6.30 Music and the Spoken Word (G)
7.00 Kenneth Copeland Presents (G)
8.00 Key of David (G)
8.30 Hi-de-Hi! (G)
9.00 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (G)
9.35 Graham Kerr’s Kitchen (G)
10.00 Sunday (PGR)
11.00 The Velvet Claw (G)
Noon The Magical World of Disney: Secrets of Life (1956) (G)
1.30 The Muppet Show Command Performances (G)
2.00 McKenna (PGR)
3.00 Land of the Giants (G)
4.00 Lost in Space (G)
5.00 National Geographic: Lions of Darkness (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 The Star Factory (G)
7.00 Home Improvement (G)
7.30 Melrose Place (Feature-length final) (PGR)
9.30 Sunday Night at the Movies: Hollywood Madam (1994) (AO)
11.15 Late Movie: The Believers (1987) (AO)
1.35 Home Shopping (Continues to 6.30am)

Sky Sport
6.00am Beach Volleyball
6.45 Rugby League World Cup
England v South Africa - live
9.00 Football
English Premier League 1995/96
11.00 Herald Card Deaker Profiles
Peter McDermott
11.30 International Sportscenter
Noon Baseball
Major League Baseball (League Championship Series) - game four, live
3.00 Showjumping
American Gold Cup
4.00 Football
Switzerland v Hungary
5.45 Golf
World Matchplay of Golf - round three
7.30 Rugby League World Cup 1995
Australia v Fiji and England v South Africa - highlights
8.30 Rugby
Air New Zealand NPC - first division final
10.05 Golf
PGA Golf (Las Vegas Invitational)
11.30 Drag Racing
IHRA Sportsman Series
12.00am ESPN Direct - Baseball
Major League Baseball (League Champions Series) - game four
2.00 College Football
2.25 Dutch Football
Twente v Ajax - live
4.30 NFL’s Greatest Moments
4.45 Sky Sport - Showjumping
American Gold Cup
5.45 Rugby League World Cup 1995
Wales v Western Samoa - live (Continues to 7.45am)

HBO
7.00am Bebe’s Kids (1992) (GY)
8.10 Wind Dancer (1993) (G)
9.45 Article 99 (1991) (GA)
11.00 Box Office America
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (GA)
2.05 Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (GY)
3.55 Wind (1992) (GY)
6.00 HBO Video Jukebox: Bon Jovi
7.00 HBO Sunday Family Movie: Airborne (1993) (GY)
8.30 HBO Sunday Premiere: Shadowlands (1993) (GY)
10.45 Alive (1993) (RP13)
12.50am A Case for Murder (1993) (GA)
2.20 Closedown

CNN
6.30am Inside Asia
7.00 World Business This Week
7.30 BBC News
8.00 CNN Presents
10.00 Inside Business
10.30 World Sport
11.00 The World Today
11.30 Diplomatic License
Noon Pinnacle
12.30 Travel Guide
1.00 PrimeNews
2.00 Larry King Weekend
4.00 Both Sides with Jesse Jackson
4.30 Evans & Novak
5.30 Global View
6.30 Moneyweek
7.00 BBC News
7.10 CNN Computer Connection
7.30 Inside Asia
8.30 Science & Technology Week
9.30 Style
10.00 World Report
11.00 World Business This Week
12.30am World Sport
1.00 World News Asia
1.30 CNN Computer Connection
2.00 Larry King Weekend
3.30 World Sport
4.30 Science & Technology Week
5.30 Travel Guide (Continues to 6.30am)

NB: This post does not include listings for Orange (Sky), Discovery/Trackside (Sky), CTV or Horizon Pacific Television (ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City and Southern).

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Kinda weird how by this time all of the free-to-air channels listed here (as well as the Sky ones) were broadcasting 24-hours a day while HBO still closed down each night. What’s up with that?

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@LiamP Over the summer of 1991/92, TVNZ announced that Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) would run 24 hours a day. However, it went back to a nightly closedown in early April 1992.

Aline Sandilands, TVNZ’s head of public relations at the time, replied to one viewer via postal mail in the NZ Listener:

TVNZ announced it would run 24-hour television during the summer months only. Viewing patterns at this time - with many New Zealanders on holiday - lent themselves to a far greater flexibility. We were delighted with the results, and hope to repeat the extended telecasts later. It was, however, noticeable that towards the middle of February people reverted to their “working” habits and switched off earlier. There’s usually a late movie on during the weekends for insomniacs!

Within the next year Channel 2’s 24-hour programming was reinstated during 1993, initially on Friday and Saturday nights only. By mid-1994, 24-hour programming was extended to Thursday to Sunday nights, and on 19 October 1994 the channel began broadcasting non-stop, 24 hours a day.

SKY MOVIES / HBO
In February 1992, Sky Movies (and, later, HBO before reverting back to its old name in 1998) ran 24-hour programming on Friday and Saturday nights and during public holidays only. The movie channel eventually became 24 hours a day from 1 November 1996, with Cartoon Network running from 6am-4pm daily. In 1997 Cartoon Network was transferred to the Sky Orange channel (now Sky 5).

TV ONE & TV3
Coinciding with the launch of TVNZ’s regional television stations, known as Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV), TV One (now TVNZ 1) began broadcasting 24 hours a day and taking the overnight BBC World feed via satellite on the morning of Monday 20 March 1995.

TV3 (now Three) began broadcasting 24 hours a day and running overnight infomercials on the morning of Sunday 9 April 1995. However, infomercials cannot be shown during the overnight hours of Good Friday, Easter Sunday or Christmas Day; this is due to the Broadcasting Act 1989 which states that no commercial advertising can be shown on New Zealand television during the following times:

  • Sundays from 6am-12pm;
  • Anzac Day from 6am-12pm; and
  • all day Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day.
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was this the Australian panel show, or a NZ production?

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@TelevisionAU A New Zealand production. “Beauty and the Beast” aired on New Zealand screens from 1976 all the way through to its final broadcast - from the Maurice Joel Theatre at Otago Boys High School in Dunedin - in November 1986.

The show was produced by TVNZ at its Dunedin studios, but production occasionally took place in Christchurch if the Dunedin studios were not available.

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Was Selwyn Toogood the host of the NZ version of Beauty and the Beast?

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@Mechsta Yes.

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Today’s TV: Friday 17 October 1997
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World - The World Today
6.15 Te Karere (Rpt)
6.30 Telstra Business
7.00 Breakfast
9.00 eTV, including:
9.00 Stevenson’s Travels (Rpt, G)
9.50 UK Today (G)
10.00 Good Morning
Noon Midday
12.30 The Bill (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 You Rang, M’Lord? (Rpt, G)
2.05 The Onedin Line (Rpt, G)
3.05 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
3.35 Brush Strokes (Rpt, PGR)
4.05 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.35 Te Karere
4.55 Emmerdale (G)
5.30 5.30 with Jude (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Maggie’s Garden Show (G)
8.30 Catherine Cookson’s The Moth (Part 3, final) (AO)
9.35 Tonight
10.00 The Fast Show (AO)
10.40 Tracey Takes On … (AO)
11.15 Comic Strip Presents (Rpt, AO)
12.25am Movie: Caught (1949) (B&W) (Rpt, G)
1.50 BBC World, including:
1.50 World Focus: Panorama
2.00 BBC World News
2.15 World Business Report
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
3.30 World Living: Tomorrow’s World
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Hard Talk
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 World Living: Top Gear (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Home Shopping
6.30 G Force (G)
7.00 Saban’s Adventures of the Little Mermaid (Rpt, G)
7.30 Peter Pan: The Animated Series (Rpt, G)
8.00 The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Rpt, G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (Rpt, G)
9.30 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Ricki Lake Show (PGR)
3.00 Infomercial
3.30 Rugrats (Rpt, G)
4.00 What Now
4.30 Rocko’s Modern Life (Rpt, G)
5.00 Harry and the Hendersons (Rpt, G)
5.30 Sweet Valley High (G)
6.00 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
6.30 Home and Away (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 SeaQuest 2032 (G)
8.30 The Sentinel (AO)
9.30 Renegade (AO)
10.30 WCW Fall Brawl
12.35am The Late Show with David Letterman (AO)
1.30 Forever Knight (AO)
2.25 The New Untouchables (AO)
3.20 Hawkeye (PGR)
4.10 Behind the Scenes: “Speed 2” (Rpt, G)
4.35 Love and Marriage
5.05 Coca-Cola Video Hits: New Releases (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.00am Infomercial
6.30 Oscar and Friends (Rpt, G)
6.35 The Magic Box (Rpt, G)
7.00 Treasures Parent Time (Rpt, G)
7.05 You and Me (Rpt, G)
7.30 TaleSpin (G)
8.00 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
8.30 My Three Sons (Rpt, G)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 What’s Cooking? (Rpt, G)
10.30 Cucina Amore (Rpt, G)
11.00 Echo Point (G)
11.30 If Not for You (PGR)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 Central Park West (Starting today) (Rpt, AO)
3.00 You and Me (Rpt, G)
3.25 Thomas the Tank Engine (G)
3.30 Disney Adventure Afternoon, including:
3.30 Darkwing Duck (Rpt, G)
4.00 Aladdin (Rpt, G)
4.30 Skysurfer Strike Force (G)
5.00 Full House (G)
5.30 The Cosby Show (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 Return of TV’s Censored Bloopers No 6 (G)
8.30 3 Sport Special: Rugby League
Super League World Club Challenge final - full delayed coverage from Ericsson Stadium, Auckland
10.45 Nightline
11.20 Late Movie: This Gun for Hire (1991) (AO)
1.10am Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 The City (PGR)
2.50 Sale of the Century (Rpt, G)
3.15 Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

TV4
10.00am Infomercials
2.00pm Interior Motives (G)
2.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
3.00 General Hospital (PGR)
3.45 TV Bloopers and Practical Jokers (Rpt, PGR)
4.10 Gilligan’s Island (G)
4.40 Get Smart (G)
5.10 Saved by the Bell (G)
5.35 Saved by the Bell: The New Class (G)
6.05 California Dreams (G)
6.35 Neighbours (G)
7.00 Singled Out (PGR)
7.30 Cin.city (PGR)
8.00 The Crew (PGR)
8.30 New York Undercover (AO)
9.30 Comedy Central Presents, including:
9.30 Dr Katz: Professional Therapist (AO)
10.00 Exit 57 (AO)
10.30 The A-List (AO)
11.00 Comics Only (PGR)
11.30 Ed’s Night Party (Rpt, AO)
12.00am Closedown

MTV
6.00am Kickstart
9.00 MTV Mix
Noon Non-Stop Hits
2.00 So 90s
3.00 Up for It
5.00 Select MTV
6.00 Collexion: Michael Jackson
7.00 European Top 20
8.00 MTV Hot
9.00 Extra Hot
9.30 Havoc
10.00 Amour
11.00 Loveline
11.30 MTV Base
12.30am Night Videos (Continues to 6am)

HBO
6.30am Rigoletto (1993) (G)
8.15 Kramer vs Kramer (1979) (M)
10.00 The Making of “12 Monkeys”
10.30 The Jerky Boys (1995) (R16)
Noon To Die For (1995) (R16)
2.00 A Pyromaniac’s Love Story (1995) (PG)
3.45 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) (PG)
6.00 Box Office America
6.30 Coming to America (1988) (PG)
8.30 Friday Double Feature: Heat (1996) (R16), followed by
Cruising (1980) (R18)
1.10am To Die For (1995) (R16)
2.55 Cobb (1994) (R16)
5.00 Coming to America (1988) (PG) (Continues to 7am)

Sky Sport
6.00am Sky Sport - Golf
Alfred Dunhill Cup
8.00 ESPN Direct - Horse Racing
American Championship Harness Series
9.00 Golf
Nike Tour Championship - round one, live
11.00 Photo Safari
11.30 International Sportscenter
Noon World Football Report
12.30 World of Rugby
1.00 NFL Football
Kansas City Chiefs v San Diego Chargers - live
4.00 Sky Sport - Motorsport
Superbike World Championship - round 12 from Sentul, Indonesia
5.30 Motorsport
Australian GT Production Car Championship - round six from Mallala
6.00 International Sportscenter
6.30 Gillette World Sport Special
7.00 Friday Night Football
7.30 Rugby League
Super League World Club Challenge final - live from Ericsson Stadium, Auckland
10.00 World of Rugby
10.30 Golf
Alfred Dunhill Cup - day one, highlights
12.00am European Football Weekly
1.00 Whitewater Rafting
World Championship
1.30 Golf
Alfred Dunhill Cup - day two, live
4.30 European PGA Golf
German Masters
5.30 ESPN Direct - Athletes in Motion (Continues to 6am)

CNN
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
6.45am American Edition
7.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
8.30 World Report
9.30 Insight
10.00 World Business Today
11.00 World Sport
11.30 WorldView
Noon Asia This Day
12.30 Moneyline
1.15 American Edition
1.30 Q & A (Rpt)
2.00 Larry King
3.30 Showbiz Today
4.30 World Report
5.30 Insight (Rpt)
6.30 Moneyline (Rpt)
7.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
7.30 Larry King (Rpt)
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
9.30 TVNZ - Holmes
10.30 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
11.30 American Edition
11.45 Q & A (Rpt)
12.00am World News Asia
12.30 World Sport (Rpt)
1.15 Asian Edition
1.30 Business Asia
2.00 Larry King (Rpt)
3.30 World Sport (Rpt)
4.30 Business Asia (Rpt)
5.30 Q & A (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

Orange
6.00am Cartoon Network
4.00pm All New Popeye
4.30 USA High
5.00 Hollyoaks
5.30 The Real World
6.00 Coronation Street
6.30 Brookside
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 High Tide
8.30 Orange at the Movies: The Circle Game (1994) (PG)
10.30 Silk Stalkings
11.00 Night Heat
12.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air) (Continues to 6am)

Discovery
6.00am Dive to Adventure
6.30 The Adventurers
7.00 Supercities
7.30 Wildlife Chronicles
8.00 In Care of Nature
8.30 Eyewitness
9.00 The New Explorers
9.30 High Adventure
10.00 Lonely Planet
11.00 Animals in Danger
11.30 Animal Survivors
Noon Portraits
1.00 Equinox
2.00 Discovery Profile Series
3.00 Go for It
4.00 Lonely Planet
5.00 Trackside Channel (Free to air)
11.00 The Heritage Guide to Great Britain
12.00am The New Explorers
1.00 Discovery Profile Series
2.00 World of Valour
2.30 Walker’s Cay Chronicles
3.00 Wings
4.00 Invention
4.30 Next Step
5.00 The New Explorers
5.30 High Adventure (Continues to 6am)

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That was a TV4 show about movies, latest releases &c. I think it only lasted one season… maybe two.

571

You’re right, @TV4. “Cin.city” was a magazine series devoted to films and ran for about two years.

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That’s weird that Bold and The Beautiful was on TV One around that time, I thought it was always broadcast on TV2

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I think it may have been on all main five NZ FTA channels.

Definitely had a couple of stints on TV3, popped up on Prime for a time and I have a vague feeling it might have been on TV4 in the earlyish days.

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TV3 aired the series first six months of 2015 and a brief stint in 1990 where the show started life on just before TVNZ brought the rights but TV1 no

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Today’s TV: Friday 18 October 1988
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.10am Teletext in Vision
10.25 Aerobics Oz Style
10.50 Play School (Rpt)
11.15 Rainbow (Rpt)
11.30 Let’s Read… with Basil Brush (Rpt)
11.40 Mr Hiccup
11.45 Kohanga Reo
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
1.40 Days of Our Lives
2.40 Knots Landing
3.35 The World of Survival
4.00 Crossroads
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
7.00 Fast Forward
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Watching (One-hour special)
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.15 The Friday Movie: Between Two Women (1970)
12.10am Closedown

Network Two
11.00am Teletext in Vision
11.15 The Young and the Restless
12.15pm The Love Connection
12.40 The Friday Matinee: Convicted (1950) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.10 Carol Burnett and Friends (Rpt)
2.30 Play School
2.55 After School, including:
2.55 Tales of the Wizard of Oz
3.04 The Telebugs
3.10 Alphabet Zoo
3.21 Orm and Cheep
3.34 Pound Puppies
4.00 Storybook International (Final)
4.30 Voyagers!
5.25 Newsbreak
5.30 Doctor Who (Rpt)
6.00 Benson (Rpt)
6.30 Mac and Mutley
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 Every Second Counts
8.00 Misfits of Science (Rpt)
9.00 Miami Vice
10.00 Married… with Children
10.30 Newsbreak
10.33 Friday Night (Final)
12.00am Closedown

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