That is a month before Home and Away screened it’s final episode on TV3 (now Three) with TVNZ picking it up several months later on TV One (now TVNZ 1)
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Today’s TV: Sunday 3 December 1978
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TV One
11.00am Church Service
The Path of Peace (Salvation Army) - direct from Wellington
Noon News
12.05 Of Course You Can Do It
12.30 Dig This
12.45 Premier Soccer
English Football League - highlights
1.30 Sunday Matinee: A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.55 Microbes and Men (Part 6, final) (Rpt)
3.50 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (Final) (Rpt)
4.40 The Wonderful World of Disney
The Secret of the Pond (Part 2)
5.30 Spot On
6.00 People Like Us
6.30 News
6.45 Sunday’s World
7.00 Show of the Week: Cilla
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Fish
8.25 News
8.30 The Governor (Part 6, final) (Rpt)
9.45 Offerings
9.50 The Composers: The World of Victor Herbert
10.50 News and Weather
10.55 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon Kaleidoscope
1.00 Access
1.30 Church in Action
1.45 Pacific Viewpoint
2.00 Pot Plants
2.05 Dollars and Sense
2.15 Work Wanted
2.30 Sportworld
Includes golf (Air New Zealand Shell Open - final round) and racing (a review of the weekend meetings)
4.45 Wildlife Cinema
5.10 The Big Valley (Rpt)
6.00 Weekend Edition News
6.10 World Watch
6.30 Stars on Sunday
7.00 Gather Your Dreams
7.25 The Fred Dagg Lectures on Leisure
7.30 Spring and Autumn (Final)
8.00 Sunday Feature: Malta Story (1954) (B&W) (Rpt)
9.40 Open Pulpit
10.10 Weekend Edition News
10.20 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
11.15 Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified
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Today’s TV: Friday 4 December 1981
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show
11.25 Jazzercise
11.30 Sykes (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.25 See Here Special (Final)
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Country Calendar (Final) (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 The Animates and Personates
3.00 Fish Tales (Rpt)
3.15 Join In (Rpt)
3.30 After School, including:
3.30 Oscar the Rabbit in Rubbidge
3.45 The Shari Lewis Show (Rpt)
4.10 Atom Ant (Rpt)
4.35 Jackanory Playhouse: A Star for My Son
5.05 The Stationary Ark
5.35 Huckleberry Finn and His Friends
6.00 The Goodies
6.30 News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.25 The Week with One
7.30 Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
7.30 South (Dunedin)
8.00 Fourth Estate
8.25 Kaleidoscope
9.30 World in Action: South Africa’s Bombshell
10.20 Encore: Nipper (Rpt)
11.35 News
11.40 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Flambards (Rpt)
3.30 Laverne and Shirley (Rpt)
4.00 Lou Grant (Rpt)
5.00 The Six Million Dollar Man (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.15 Turf Topic
6.30 Chopper Squad
7.30 The Dukes of Hazzard
8.30 Turtle’s Progress (Part 4)
9.30 The Benny Hill Show
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Friday Feature: Brewster McCloud (1970)
12.15am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 5 December 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Play School (Rpt)
10.35 Pullover (Rpt)
10.45 Shoe People
10.50 The Wombles (Rpt)
10.55 Crossroads (Double episode)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.15 Film on One: Scavenger Hunt (1979)
2.10 To Serve Them All My Days (Rpt)
3.10 EastEnders (Double episode)
4.15 227
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 A Question of Sport
8.00 Brush Strokes (Rpt)
8.30 Crimewatch
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 St Elsewhere (Final)
10.55 Crimewatch Update
11.00 The Collectors (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Telebugs
6.35 Richie Rich
7.00 Breakfast News
7.30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
8.00 Breakfast News
News and weather update
8.05 My Pet Monster
8.30 Charlie Chalk
8.50 Sesame Street
9.50 The Yearling
10.15 Three Up, Two Down (Rpt)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
1.55 Newhart (Series return)
2.20 After 2, including:
2.21 Play School (Rpt)
2.45 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Bugs Bunny and Friends (Rpt)
4.10 Danger Mouse
4.40 Wildtrack
5.15 Blind Date
5.45 Newsbreak and Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode)
7.30 Cheers
8.00 Night Court
8.30 Mini-Series: Windmills of the Gods (Part 2, final)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Simon & Simon (Series return)
11.30 The Tuesday Thriller: Riviera (1987)
1.20am Closedown
TV3
7.00am Early Bird Show
Includes Garfield, DuckTales, The Wuzzles, Dennis the Menace and news every half hour
9.00 Dinosaucers
9.30 Welcome Back Kotter
10.00 Chico and the Man
10.30 Check It Out!
11.00 9 to 5
11.30 Holiday World
Noon Matinee Movie: Fort Apache (1948)
2.30 Bring 'Em Back Alive
3.30 Mickey Mouse Club
4.00 The Real Ghostbusters
4.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5.00 Get Smart
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 3 National News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 The Golden Girls
7.30 Home and Away (Series premiere, part 1)
8.30 The Great Wall of Iron (Starting tonight)
9.30 Rumpole of the Bailey (Starting tonight, part 1)
10.30 The Benny Hill Show
11.00 The Law and Harry McGraw
12.00am Diamonds (Starting tonight)
1.00 Closedown
@TelevisionAU @OnAir @Leotv @LiamP The Australian soap “Home and Away” - which initially focused on Tom and Pippa Fletcher and their foster family as they moved to the coastal town of Summer Bay - made its New Zealand television debut on TV3 (now Three) with a movie-length pilot at 7.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 5 December 1989, although the pilot was broken down into two parts (over two nights in the 7.30-8.30pm slot).
Within the next week, “Home and Away” was initially shown in an hour-long/double episode format (i.e. two individual half hour episodes, although the series was produced as five episodes per week) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7.30pm.
After “Home and Away”, “The Great Wall of Iron” - a four-part documentary series on the People’s Liberation Army of China - followed at 8.30pm with newsreading legend Philip Sherry, who died recently, as host/narrator for the New Zealand version (replacing Jack Thompson in the international version).
This unique and exclusive look into the armed forces of China traced its history, development. In the light of the tragic events in Tiananmen Square it gave a timely look at its current state. “The Great Wall of Iron” was originally produced by the Beyond International Group (the producers of “Beyond 2000”) in conjunction with the BBC, but the New Zealand version was produced exclusively for TV3.
British legal drama “Rumpole of the Bailey”, with Leo McKern in the title role, followed at 9.30pm.
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Rumpole of the Bailey was shown on TV One in early to mid 80s
Today’s TV: Saturday 6 December 1975
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Sport on One
Includes racing preview and “Three-a-Side” (sports quiz)
11.00 Of Course You Can Do It
11.30 Good Farming
Noon Saturday Matinee: Blowing Wild (1953) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.35 News
1.40 Sport on One
Includes golf (Garden City Classic) and racing from Wanganui
5.00 Swiss Family Robinson
5.30 Star Trek
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The Waltons
8.00 The Inventors
8.30 News
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Auntie Mame (1958)
11.10 Saturday Night at the Movies: Paris Express (1953)
12.30am News and Weather
12.35 Closedown
TV2
1.00pm Free Time
2.00 Doc Elliot
2.50 Saturday Matinee: Anything Can Happen (1952)
4.35 Woody Woodpecker
5.05 Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
5.15 Norman
6.00 News
Saturday at Six (Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington)
The South on Saturday (Canterbury)
6.30 Tommy Cooper Hour
7.30 The Mod Squad
8.35 Saturday Premiere Movie: Police Story (1973)
9.50 Newsroom (News)
10.00 Barnaby Jones
10.50 Journey to the Unknown (Rpt)
11.45 Closedown (Time approximate)
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified
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Today’s TV: Saturday 7 December 1985
from the NZ Listener
TV One
7.00am Atom Ant (Rpt)
7.25 The Muppet Babies
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
11.00 Bonanza
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Force of Evil (1948) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.30 Sport on One
Includes golf (NZ Open - day three, live from Christchurch) and cricket (NZ v Australia - third test, highlights)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 One Day at a Time
7.30 Scarecrow and Mrs King
8.30 The Saturday Premiere Movie: The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
10.25 Entertainment This Week
11.25 News
11.30 Late Movie/Edward G Robinson: Nightmare (1956) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.00am Late Movie: The Return of the World’s Greatest Detective (1976)
2.10 Sport on One Special: Rugby League
France v New Zealand (Kiwis) - second test, live
4.00 Closedown
TV2
11.00am Cosmos (Rpt)
11.55 Twelve Hundred Miles from Alaska (Rpt)
Noon Our World: Journeys Across Latitude 45° South (Part 3) (Rpt)
1.00 Art from Under (Part 2) (Rpt)
1.20 Whiz Kids
2.15 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Cover Girl (1944)
4.10 The People’s Court
4.35 More Real People
5.00 Emmerdale Farm (Double episode)
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Mind Your Language (Rpt)
7.00 The Wine Programme
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Playhouse Special: Three Sisters
10.15 News
10.30 Playhouse Special: Three Sisters (Continued)
12.10am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 8 December 1987
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.45am Aerobics Oz Style
11.10 Play School (Rpt)
11.30 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.35 Rainbow
Noon Midday News
12.15 The Young and the Restless
1.15 Agony (Final) (Rpt)
1.45 Days of Our Lives
2.45 Get Lost! (Rpt)
3.45 Masterworks
4.00 Sports Special: Cricket
Australia v New Zealand - first test, day five, live from Brisbane
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Sorry!
8.00 Lytton’s Diary
9.00 Tuesday Documentary: The Pitt Islanders
10.00 Sports Special: Cricket
Australia v New Zealand - first test, day five, highlights
10.30 Are You Being Served? (Rpt)
11.05 The Sweeney (Rpt)
12.10am Closedown
Network Two
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 Hart to Hart (Final) (Rpt)
1.30 Bonanza (Final) (Rpt)
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.58 After School, including:
3.59 The Snorks (Final) (Rpt)
4.31 The Flintstone Frolics (Final) (Rpt)
5.00 Doctor Who (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Scarecrow and Mrs King
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Who’s the Boss?
8.30 Crossbow
9.00 The Bill (Final)
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, “Worldwatch” and a news update
11.00 Quincy
12.00am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Friday 9 December 1983
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.25am Play School (Rpt)
11.50 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.45 See Here
12.50 Beauty and the Beast
1.20 Country Calendar (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.20 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Rainbow (Rpt)
3.10 The Devil and Daniel Mouse (Rpt)
3.30 After School, including (all times approx):
3.35 Here’s Boomer
4.00 Sign Time
4.05 The Smurfs (Rpt)
4.30 Movie for After School: Little Boy Lost (1978) (Rpt)
5.55 Te Karere (East Coast only)
6.00 Phew Maths
6.05 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 Coronation Street
8.20 Fourth Estate
8.30 Kaleidoscope
9.25 The Week with One
9.30 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Rpt)
10.00 Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War
10.50 Encore: Blood and Honour (Part 5, final) (Rpt)
11.45 A Day in the Life of Beryl Cook
12.10am News
12.15 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm The Gate of Eden (Part 3, final) (Rpt)
3.25 General Hospital
3.45 The Waltons (Rpt)
4.45 Don’t Ask Me (Rpt)
5.10 Diff’rent Strokes
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere (Nationwide except East Coast)
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 Solid Gold
7.30 The Greatest American Hero (Rpt)
8.30 The Comedy Hour: Benny Hill in the USA
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Friday Feature: The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1975)
11.35 Two Rivers Meet (Rpt)
12.10am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Monday 10 December 1979
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (B&W)
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Joby (Part 1) (Rpt)
2.15 The World of Pam Ayres
2.40 Play School
3.05 Sooty (Rpt)
3.25 Fish Tales
3.40 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
4.05 The Paper Lads (Final)
4.30 Tabitha (Rpt)
4.55 The Virginian
6.10 Dance Fever
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Fish
7.55 Dateline Monday
8.40 Born and Bred (Part 6, final)
9.30 News
9.40 Inside Story: Behind the Front
10.30 Thames Comedy Playhouse
10.55 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.00 Romper Room
3.30 The Toothbrush Family
3.35 Mumbly (Rpt)
3.45 Heads and Tails
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including:
4.00 Battle of the Planets
4.30 The Fitzpatricks
5.25 Welcome Back Kotter
6.00 News at Six
6.28 Weather
6.30 Eight Is Enough
7.30 Custer
8.30 New Scotland Yard
9.30 Alice
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Monday Movie: Hardcase (1972)
11.55 Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 11 November 1990
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.40 The Forest of Boland Light Railway (Starting today)
10.55 Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay (G)
11.05 Correspondence School Break-up
Live from Wellington Girls’ College hall
Noon Hard Copy
12.25 Film on One: The Virginian - High Stakes (1966)
1.55 Fast Forward (Rpt)
2.25 A Dog’s Show (Rpt)
2.55 Country Calendar (Rpt)
3.25 Designing Women
4.00 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.30 One World of Sport: Cricket
World Series Cricket - Australia v NZ, one-day match, live from the MCG
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 One World of Sport: Cricket
World Series Cricket - Australia v NZ, one-day match, live from the MCG (continued)
10.00 One Network News
10.15 One World of Sport: Cricket
World Series Cricket - Australia v NZ, one-day match, live from the MCG (continued)
12.15am Closedown
STANDBY PROGRAMMES (if the cricket does not screen):
7.30pm Only Fools and Horses
8.00 Never the Twain
8.30 Hangman of Lyon: The Story of Paul Touvier
9.30 May to December
10.00 One Network News
10.15 The Return of Sherlock Holmes
11.15 City Lights
12.15am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Captain Caveman (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Flintstones (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Gary Coleman Show
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 Heathcliff (G)
9.00 Wally Gator (Rpt, G)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 What’s in the Fridge? (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 That’s Fairly Interesting (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 The Hallo Spencer Show (G)
3.15 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Defenders of the Earth
4.20 Star Trek Special
5.00 Charles in Charge (Rpt, G)
5.30 America’s Funniest People
6.00 Family Ties (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode) (G)
7.30 Night Court (PGR)
8.00 Doctor, Doctor
8.30 Paradise (PGR)
9.30 Wiseguy (AO)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Double episode) (Rpt, AO)
11.50 Closedown
TV3
Noon Running Wild (G)
12.30 Trial by Jury (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 Mickey and Donald (G)
3.30 The Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
4.00 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
4.30 Home and Away (Double episode) (G)
5.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Family Feud
7.30 The Father Dowling Mysteries
8.30 In the Heat of the Night (AO)
9.30 3 Special: Dame Cath Moves Up
Click the NZ On Screen link below
10.30 Nightline
11.00 The Master (AO)
12.00am Closedown
Sky Sport
Noon Rugby League
France v Australia - second test
1.30 Sportraits
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Bodyshaping
3.00 College Basketball
4.30 Magic Years in Sport: 1947
5.00 Superbouts
Duran v Berkley
6.00 Cricket
World Series Cricket - Australia v NZ, one-day match, live from the MCG
7.30 Sky Sports Week
9.00 Spanish Football
9.30 American Football
12.00am Closedown
Sky Movies
Noon Nor the Moon by Night (1958) (G)
2.00 Rivkin: Bounty Hunter (1981) (GA)
4.00 Gallavants (1988) (G)
6.00 Arch of Triumph (1985) (GA)
8.00 Punchline (1988) (GA)
10.00 Protocol (1984) (GY)
11.36 Closedown
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newshour
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Sonya Live
8.00 Newsday
9.00 International Hour
10.00 Newsday
11.00 Early Prime
11.30 Showbiz Today
Noon The World Today
1.00 Moneyline
1.30 Crossfire
2.00 Prime News
3.00 Larry King Live
4.00 CNN Evening News
5.00 Moneyline
5.30 CNN Sports
6.00 Newsnight
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Newsnight Update
8.30 CNN Sports
9.00 Newsnight Update
9.45 CNN Newsroom
10.00 Larry King Overnight
11.00 Crossfire
11.30 Early Bird News
12.00am Daybreak
12.30 Business Morning
1.00 Daybreak
1.30 Business Day
2.00 Daybreak
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 World Day
5.00 Daywatch (Continues to 6am)
@OnAir @Leotv In December 1990 Dame Cath Tizard, who died recently, became New Zealand’s 16th Governor-General.
The documentary “Dame Cath Moves Up” - which screened on TV3 (now Three) at 9.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 11 December 1990 - profiled the personal and political style of Dame Cath as a straight-speaking woman, and followed her journey from a working class household in small-town rural New Zealand to the Queen’s representative in Government House at the time.
You can watch the documentary through NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
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Today’s TV: Monday 12 December 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.05am Teletext in Vision
10.20 Aerobics Oz Style
10.45 Play School (Rpt)
11.10 Rainbow
11.25 Creepy Crawlies
11.35 Amigo and Friends
11.45 Stories of Snowy and Buttercup Buskers (Rpt)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 'Allo 'Allo! (Final) (Rpt)
1.50 Days of Our Lives
2.50 Coronation Street (Rpt)
Last Thursday and Friday’s episodes repeated
3.40 A Big Country (Rpt)
4.15 In Loving Memory
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.00 Our World: Fragments of Eden
8.00 Boon
9.00 Alas Smith and Jones Home-Made Video
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.15 Falcon Crest
11.15 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Final)
11.45 Closedown
Network Two
11.00am Teletext in Vision
11.15 The Young and the Restless
12.15pm The Love Connection
12.40 Buck James
1.35 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
2.05 The People’s Court
2.30 Play School
2.55 After School, including:
2.55 3-2-1 Contact (Rpt)
3.25 DuckTales
3.54 The Pink Panther & Sons (Final)
4.23 The Partridge Family (Starting today) (Rpt)
4.55 Diff’rent Strokes (Rpt)
5.25 Newsbreak
5.30 The Addams Family (B&W) (Rpt)
6.00 Benson
6.30 RTR Countdown
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Sledge Hammer!
8.30 Cheers
9.00 Tour of Duty
10.00 Porridge (Final) (Rpt)
10.35 Newsbreak
10.38 Entertainment This Week
11.35 Mannix
12.30am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Friday 13 December 1991
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 Family Films on One: Panache (1976) (Rpt, G)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News
1.00 Film on One: Les Girls (1951) (AO)
3.10 Mini-Series: Nonni and Manni (Part 5) (G)
4.15 Kate & Allie (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Wheel of Fortune
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 Around the World in Eighty Days (Starting tonight, part 1)(Rpt, G)
9.30 Bread (PGR)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Mini-Series: Queenie (Part 2) (AO)
1.40am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 My Little Pony 'n Friends (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (rpt, G)
7.25 The Bullwinkle Show (G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 Peter Potamuss (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 The Kidsongs TV Show (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Who’s the Boss? (Rpt, G)
2.30 ALF (Rpt, G)
2.55 Charlie Chalk (Rpt, G)
3.10 Maya the Bee (G)
3.35 The Little Flying Bears (G)
4.00 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
4.30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
6.00 Candid Camera
6.30 Studs
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 The Young Riders (G)
8.30 The Flash (Series premiere) (PGR)
9.30 Top Cops (Series return)
10.35 In Living Color (Series return)
11.05 Hot Summer Concerts on 2: Sinead O’Connor
12.25am The Friday Late Movie: The Fantasist (1986) (AO)
2.25 Closedown
TV3
6.25am EBS, including:
6.25 Aunties’ Alphabet (Rpt, G)
6.30 Pinocchio (G)
7.00 The Real Ghostbusters (Rpt, G)
7.30 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
8.00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (G)
8.30 Closedown
Noon The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
12.30 Generations
1.00 NBC Nightly News
1.30 Another World
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.30 Super Mario Bros (G)
4.00 Dennis the Menace (Rpt, G)
4.30 Double Dare
5.00 Voltron (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
7.30 TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes (G)
8.30 Friday Night at the Movies: Blow Out (1981) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Late Movie: Little Moon and Jud McGraw (1979) (AO)
1.05am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Bodies in Motion
6.30 Tennis
1991 Grand Slam Cup - live from Munchi, Germany
10.30 Motoworld
11.00 Monster Trucks
11.30 Black College Sports Today
Noon Thoroughbred Digest
12.30 Sky Sport - Boxing: The Big Event
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Body Shpaing
3.00 Tennis
Kremlin Cup - final
5.00 Thoroughbred Digest
5.30 Muscle Magazine
6.00 Gillette World Sport Special
6.30 Motoworld
7.00 Football
English Football League - highlights of the week’s action
8.00 Tennis
1991 Grand Slam Cup - full replay
10.30 ESPN Direct - College Basketball
Eastern Michigan v Michigan - full coverage
12.30am Top Rank Boxing
2.30 Glory Days
3.00 Basic Training Workout
3.30 Bodyshaping
4.00 Ten Years of NASCAR Racing
5.00 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
5.30 Body by Jake (Continues to 6am)
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
7.00am BBC News
8.00 World Business Today
9.00 International Hour
11.00 World Business Today Update
11.30 Showbiz Today
1.00pm Moneyline
1.30 Crossfire
3.00 Larry King
5.00 Showbiz Today
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Moneyline
8.30 TVNZ News
9.45 CNN Newsroom
10.30 Larry King
11.30 Crossfire
12.30am Business Today
1.30 Business Day
3.00 Larry King
5.30 Crier & Company
Sky Movies
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) (GA)
1.16 The Hollywood Detective (GY)
2.45 The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) (G)
4.30 The Young Magician (1986) (G)
6.15 Iron Eagle II (1988) (GY)
8.00 New York Stories (1989) (GA)
10.05 PIN (1989) (R16)
11.50 Evidence of Love (R16)
1.22am Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
4.30pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 Campbell’s Cars (G)
6.30 Horse-Power Racing Preview
7.30 Jim Hopkins Live
8.00 First Report (News) (Rpt)
8.30 Movie: The Innocents (1961) (AO)
10.25 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
11.30 Closedown
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Would you be able to provide more 1988 listings? They aren’t on your FB page.
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I’ll put the 1988 listings on Media Spy in the future.
Today’s TV: Thursday 15 December 1977
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Karen (Rpt)
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.20 Play School
2.50 Rooms (Final)
3.20 Nice One
3.25 Don and Pete
3.30 My Favourite Martian (Rpt)
4.00 Gomer Pyle, USMC (Rpt)
4.30 Wonderful World of Magic (Rpt)
5.00 Here Come the Brides (Rpt)
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Whicker’s World: Down Under
8.00 Doctor at Sea (Rpt)
8.30 The Andros Targets (Final)
9.30 News
9.40 Shaft - Cop Killer
11.00 News and Weather
11.05 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.02 Romper Room
3.45 Rainbow
4.00 Search for Tomorrow
4.25 Hey Hey It’s Andy, including:
4.25 A Little Bit of Booma
4.30 Lucas Tanner (Rpt)
5.30 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
6.00 News: First Edition
6.30 Ray Columbus Presents… New Faces
7.00 Bless This House (Rpt)
7.30 Chico and the Man
8.00 Thursday Star Movie: The Third Day (1965)
10.15 News: Late Edition
10.25 After Ten
Closedown when programme ends
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified
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Today’s TV: Saturday 16 December 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
8.45am Teletext in Vision
9.00 A Big Country
9.30 The Olympiad
10.20 Mr Belvedere
10.45 Highway to Heaven
11.35 Tagata Pasifika (Final)
Noon The Virginian (Rpt)
1.30 The Magnificent Evans (Starting today) (Rpt)
2.00 Sport on One
Includes swimming and diving, cycling, bowls, Ironman and racing from Awapuni and Avondale
5.30 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records
6.00 One Network News
6.30 It’s in the Bag
7.00 All Creatures Great and Small (Final)
8.00 McCormick Country (Final)
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Going in Style (1979)
10.15 One Network News
10.25 At the Movies
10.50 Saturday Night at the Movies: Convoy (1978) (Rpt)
12.45am Closedown
Channel 2
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 The Breakfast Club (Final), including:
7.02 Tugs
7.25 Flash Gordon
8.00 What Now (Final)
10.05 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
10.35 Tom and Jerry
11.05 Sounz!
Noon Midday Movie: Out of the Past (1947) (B&W)
1.55 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
2.45 Throb
3.10 Shelley Duvall’s Tall Tales and Legends
4.00 A Country Practice
5.00 Batman (Rpt)
5.30 Space Knights (Final)
6.00 RTR Countdown
6.30 Movie: The Sound of Music (1965) (Rpt)
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Movie: The Sound of Music (Continued)
9.45 CV
12.00am Midnight Movie: Rebel (1985)
1.45 Closedown
TV3
7.00am Gummi Bears
7.30 Mighty Mouse and Friends
8.00 Mickey and Donald
8.30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy Specials
9.00 Batman with Robin
9.30 Three’s a Crowd
10.00 Shakedown
11.00 Coach
11.30 She’s the Sheriff
Noon High Mountain Rangers
1.00 Stir Crazy
2.00 Sportsworld
Includes motorsport, golf (Australian Masters) and freestyle skiing (World Cup)
5.00 The Wonderful World of Disney
The Boy and the Bronc Buster (Part 2)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Roseanne
7.00 Family Matters
7.30 LaughINZ
8.30 Hunter
9.30 Midnight Caller
10.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Jake Speed (1986)
12.30am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 17 December 1985
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.50 Tai Chi (Rpt)
10.55 Crossroads
11.25 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Father Murphy (Rpt)
12.55 Love, Sidney (Rpt)
1.30 Lottery! (Rpt)
2.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Danger Mouse (Rpt)
3.05 Sesame Street
4.05 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
4.30 Phoenix and the Carpet (Part 1) (Rpt)
5.00 Shazam! (Final)
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 The Beginner’s Guide To… (Final)
8.00 Diff’rent Strokes
8.30 Miami Vice
9.30 Berrengers
10.30 It’s a Living (Final)
11.00 News
11.05 The World Tonight
11.30 Closedown
TV2
Noon The Midday Movie: The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.50 PM Magazine
2.00 Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
2.30 General Hospital
3.45 Holiday Movie: Woman of the Year (1942) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans
7.30 One by One
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: The Leahys - Music Most of All
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Up from Under: The Koala that Roared
11.00 Hawaii Five-O (Final)
11.55 Closedown
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Today’s TV: Saturday 18 December 1976
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Sports Extra
Includes a preview of the day’s racing from Wingatui
10.45 Science Report
11.00 Of Course You Can Do It (Final)
11.30 Animal World
Noon Vision
12.25 Saturday Matinee: The Mark of Zorro (1940) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.00 News
2.05 Sport on One
Includes racing from Wingatui, showjumping and cricket (Shell Cup - Wellington v Central Districts)
4.55 Basil Brush (Final)
5.25 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game
6.25 The Wombles
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The Donny & Marie Show (Final)
8.00 Jokers Wild
8.30 News
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Columbo - Double Exposure
9.50 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Dream Makers
11.10 Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
11.50 News and Weather
11.55 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm Saturday Matinee: Gentle Giant (1967) (B&W)
3.00 Dinah!
4.00 The Adventures of Black Beauty
4.30 Thunderbirds (Rpt)
5.25 Booma
6.00 News at Six
6.15 Sport in Action
7.00 Little House on the Prairie
8.00 Comedy Movie: Carry On Spying (1965)
9.40 12 O’Clock High (B&W)
10.40 News
10.50 Saturday Premiere Movie: Hurricane
12.00am Closedown
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified
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Today’s TV: Sunday 19 December 1982
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.55 Agreport (Final) (Rpt)
1.10 Dig This (Final) (Rpt)
1.25 Of Course You Can Do It (Final) (Rpt)
1.55 Sunday Afternoon Movie: David Copperfield (1970)
3.45 The All New Pink Panther Show
4.05 Woolly Valley
4.15 The Wonderful World of Disney (Rpt)
My Family Is a Menagerie
5.00 Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World (Rpt)
5.30 Spot On (Final)
6.00 God Bless Us, Every One!
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Barbara Woodhouse Goes to Beverly Hills
7.50 Country Calendar (Rpt)
8.05 An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
9.00 News
9.10 Play of the Week: Dylan - The Life and Death of a Poet
11.05 News
11.10 Closedown
TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: For the Love of Mike (1960) (Rpt)
1.20 The Bob Newhart Show (Rpt)
1.45 Young Musicians’ Competition
3.00 Oh That We Were There - Songs in the Glad Season
3.25 The Christians (Rpt)
4.15 A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (Part 4) (Rpt)
5.05 The City That Forgot About Christmas
5.30 Stars on Sunday
5.55 News
6.00 Our World: The Curious Cat (Final)
6.50 The Week with 2
7.00 Three’s Company
7.25 Sunday Movie: A Few Days in Weasel Creek
8.55 Radio with Pictures (Final)
10.25 The Sunday Horrors: I Walked with a Zombie (1943) (B&W)
11.30 Closedown
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