Classic NZ TV Listings

[PaddyTePou]

This Week’s TV: 29 March - 4 April 1986
from the NZ Listener

TVNZ commenced 24-hour weekend television on the evening of Friday 4 April 1986. Within the next week, TV One (now TVNZ 1) went to air Mondays to Thursdays from 9am until around midnight and stayed on air from 9am Friday until closedown at around midnight on Sunday.

24-hour weekend television via TV One was short-lived as the result of a dispute with record companies, who were demanding payment for video clips that were becoming increasingly expensive to produce. TVNZ refused to pay to screen them on the grounds that this was ‘a form of sales promotion’, and its music shows were taken off the air.

Nightly closedown on TV One was reinstated, with the channel commencing transmission at 7am Saturdays, 8am Sundays and 9am on weekdays.

[SClubDreamer99]

I wonder if you could upload TV listings from the late 90s to the early 2000s that featured kids tv programming on TV2 and TV3 between 1996 - 2004.

[PaddyTePou]

Thanks for your suggestion, @SClubDreamer99. For now, I’ll put it in my mind.

[PaddyTePou]

This week’s TV: 4-10 April 1987
from the NZ Listener

In 1987 TVNZ launched two new programmes - “Tagata Pasifika” and “Waka Huia”. Both of which were produced in-house by TVNZ’s now-defunct Māori Programmes department, under the direction of the late Ernie Leonard.

The first edition of “Tagata Pasifika”, presented by Niuean broadcaster Foufou Susana Hukui, was broadcast on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 11am on the morning of Saturday 4 April 1987. It included items on Cook Islands dance, the ‘Otara flea market’, and NZ work schemes for islanders. Samoan Maligi Evile presented “Pacific News” (a review of the week’s news from around the Pacific Islands), while Vainetutai Temaeva-Nicholls covered the Cook Islands.

Since the beginning of time, “Tagata Pasifika” broke ground as the first television programme in New Zealand to focus on Pacific Island stories and Pacific Islanders, although earlier programme “See Here” was aimed at both Māori and Pacific audiences and screened in a lunchtime slot on weekdays.

Tagata Pasifika - First Episode | Television | NZ On Screen

Meanwhile, the first edition of the longest running Māori language programme “Waka Huia”, presented by Hemana Waaka, aired on TV2 at 10am on the morning of Sunday 5 April 1987. A ‘waka huia’ is traditionally a treasure box to hold the revered huia feather.

That edition included a review of the status of te reo Māori; a feature on Te Waka Huia, winners of the 1986 Polynesian Festival in Christchurch; and an interview with Dame Mira Szaszy, former president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, who talked of her aspirations for Māori women. In addition, an interview with Sir James Henare was also featured.

Since its very first edition, “Waka Huia” - created by the late Whai Ngata - has travelled extensively to retell tribal histories, and sets a high standard of reo, seeking to interview only fluent speakers. It has also covered some of the social and political concerns of the day, taking a snapshot of Māori history, and it’s described by NZ On Screen as ‘a tāonga for future generations’.

Waka Huia - First Episode | Television | NZ On Screen

Nowadays, “Tagata Pasifika” and “Waka Huia” are produced for TVNZ by SunPix and Scottie Productions as separate, independent production companies. This year they are celebrating 35 years on air.

You can watch the first edition of each programme via NZ On Screen by clicking one of the respective links above.

And speaking of mainstream programmes on TVNZ, “Country Calendar” moved to the earlier timeslot of 6.05pm on Sunday evenings on TV One (now TVNZ 1) and “Fair Go” shifted from TV One to TV2 (well, briefly) and aired at 8pm on Tuesday evenings.

[PaddyTePou]

This week’s TV: 1-4 April 1975
from the NZ Listener

“Ladies and gentlemen, you are very welcome. Television One is here at last.” - Dougal Stevenson

@OnAir These are the listings from TV One’s first week of broadcasting.

On 1 April 1975, the NZBC was split into three separate state owned corporations: Radio New Zealand (RNZ), Television One (TV One) and Television Two (TV2).

The existing NZBC television network became TV One, and was based at the Avalon Television Centre in Lower Hutt which opened transmission on the afternoon of Tuesday 1 April 1975 at 2pm with a five-minute news bulletin. The new Avalon Television Centre was officially opened about a fortnight earlier.

TV One’s two-hour opening night special, live from Avalon, was shown at 7pm. It was not an auspicious beginning, with fluffed lines, faulty microphones, a camera failure and an atmosphere of uncertainty among many of the performers themselves about the hyped-up image they were called on to present.

The phones went crazy with complaints as viewers reacted to TV One’s deliberate effort that it was simply not a continuation of NZBC TV under a different name.

Alan Morris, who (along with Allan Martin) had returned from a senior executive position with the ABC in Australia, was brought in as CEO of TV One. An ABC colleague, Bill Munro, was appointed TV One’s head of programmes and Munro brought his knowledge of the competitive Australian television scene with him.

The result was that TV One went to air with a strongly competitive style and an emphasis on personalities and presentation which took us as New Zealanders by surprise - particularly as there was no competitor on air at the time.

The image was softened in response to the outbreak of criticism from what Munro identified as ‘the clobbering machine’, but it certainly served to shake viewers loose from NZBC expectations.

The approach eventually developed over the next few months was to present a coherent, packaged, competitive television network, led by identifiable personalities including newsreaders Dougal Stevenson and Bill McCarthy, and weather girl Tina Carline.

Doug Eckhoff was appointed TV One’s head of news and current affairs.

The network news was moved to the earlier timeslot of 6.30pm (from 7pm on NZBC TV) and the regional magazines were dropped and replaced with a local opt-out of up to 10 minutes within the main evening news bulletin.

A mid-evening news and current affairs programme, “Tonight at Nine”, screened at 9pm and was described as ‘the country’s first serious effort at nightly current affairs’. It was produced by Bill Earl and the team included Shaun Brown, Terry Carter, Ian Johnstone, Spencer Jolly, Murray McLaughlin, Barbara Magner, Gillian Woodward and a young Lindsay Perigo and Simon Walker, with occasional contributions by Fred Dagg (John Clarke).

Other current affairs programmes produced by TV One in its first week included “Sunday’s World” (a closer look at topical issues both at home and abroad, introduced by Graeme Thomson) and “Seven Days” (a series of documentary-style current affairs investigations, introduced by Joe Cote and produced by Des Monaghan).

On the sporting arena, the Saturday afternoon “Sport on One” was introduced by Jon Neilson and produced by Harold Anderson, TV One’s head of sport.

[Sheldon_Betteridge]

These are quite similar to early days of TV3 as TV One was a pretty standard general entrainment channel targeted at any age a group till TV2 came along in June

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Saturday 9 April 1988
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 My Little Pony ‘n Friends
7.30 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
8.00 What Now (1988 opener)
10.00 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
10.30 Punky Brewster (Final)
11.00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.02 The High Chaparral (Starting today) (Rpt)
1.00 The Day the Universe Changed (Starting today)
2.00 Sport on One
Includes racing from Ellerslie ($200,000 TVNZ Stakes, Sport on One Classic etc) and Randwick (Sydney Cup), netball (Swiss Maid League - PIC v Carmel Mainzeal), and jet sprinting (Waimakariri River Jetsprint)
6.00 Home James
6.30 Network News and Sport
7.00 All Creatures Great and Small
8.00 Whicker’s World: Living with Waltzing Matilda
9.05 The Dame Edna Experience!
9.55 Midevening News
10.10 Tenko (Rpt)
11.10 The Rockford Files
12.15am Closedown

Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Mr Merlin (Rpt)
12.20 The Love Boat (Rpt)
1.15 Lost in Space (B&W) (Rpt)
2.20 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
3.10 The People’s Court
3.35 Taxi (Rpt)
4.00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
5.00 Raw Energy (Final)
5.30 Head of the Class
6.00 Fame
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 My Two Dads
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 MacGyver
9.05 Saturday Night at the Movies: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
11.20 Werewolf
11.50 Heartbeat City (1988 opener)
12.50am Closedown

The 1984 film “Beverly Hills Cop”, starring Eddie Murphy, made its New Zealand television debut on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) at 9.05pm on the evening of Saturday 9 April 1988.

After an episode of “Werewolf” - a US horror series about grad student Eric Cord (played by John J York), whose life changed after being bitten by a werewolf - TVNZ music show “Heartbeat City” returned to our screens in a later Saturday night slot. Introduced in 1987 and originally screened at 11pm on Friday nights, “Heartbeat City” was a mix of ‘the latest video releases, classic flashbacks and in-concert specials’ and ran for two years.

A selection of commercials and promos from off-air recordings of “Beverly Hills Cop”, and other TVNZ shows and movies during 1987/88, can be seen on YouTube - special thanks to @Sleek822 (below).

1988 NZ TV Commercials

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Friday 11 April 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Play School (Rpt)
9.25 Willo the Wisp (Rpt)
9.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 Nature Watch (Rpt)
11.00 Hadleigh (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Citizen Smith (rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.40 Play School (Rpt)
3.05 Rainbow
3.20 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
3.45 After School, including:
3.45 The Family Ness
3.50 The Smurfs
4.24 Movie for After School: Fluteman
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 EastEnders (Double episode)
8.40 Kaleidoscope
9.35 Barney Miller (Rpt)
10.05 Fourth Estate
10.20 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Rpt)
11.15 Max Headroom (Final)
11.40 News
11.45 12 O’Clock Rock: Grace Jones
12.40am Video Music
3.00 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
3.30 Naked City (B&W) (Rpt)
4.20 Late, Late Movie: Hoodlum Empire (1952) (B&W) (Continues to 6am)

TV2
Noon Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 Miller’s Court
2.30 Dynasty (Rpt)
3.25 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
3.50 The Waltons (Rpt)
4.50 Solid Gold
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Shazam!
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 Moonlighting
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Friday Feature: Chinatown (1974)
12.25am Closedown

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Saturday 12 April 1980
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Turf Talk
10.35 Of Course You Can Do It
11.00 Big League Soccer
11.50 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Fort Yuma (1955)
1.20 Sport on One
Includes racing from Ellerslie, international softball and motorsport (rally sprinting from Ashley Forest)
5.00 How’s That?
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Radio Times
8.00 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
10.20 Parkinson
11.30 The Evil Touch
11.55 News
12.00am Closedown

TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow
1.05 Shirley Bassey (Rpt)
1.50 Saturday Afternoon Movie: The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
3.35 Celebrity Charades
3.55 Au Lieu de Grace
4.15 Eight Is Enough (Rpt)
5.00 The Sullivans (Double episode)
5.55 News
6.00 Sports Review
6.30 Laverne & Shirley
7.00 The Love Boat
8.00 Benson
8.30 Royal Variety Performance
10.20 News
10.35 Thriller Movie: Honour Thy Father
12.15am Closedown

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Wednesday 14 April 1976
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
12.25 Lunchbox
12.30 Good Farming
1.00 Today at One
1.30 Days of Our Lives
1.50 Crown Court
2.20 Crossroads
2.45 Play School
3.15 Sesame Street
4.20 Lassie
4.40 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
5.05 Nanny and the Professor (Rpt)
5.35 Land of the Giants
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Good Heavens
7.30 Switch
8.30 Town Cryer
9.30 Tonight
10.00 Sportsnight
Includes horse racing (Grand National from Aintree) and cycling (NZ Road Cycling Championships)
11.00 News and Weather
11.05 Closedown

TV2
1.00pm The Box
1.25 Dinah!
2.15 Search for Tomorrow
2.35 Hudson and Halls
2.45 The Doris Day Show (Rpt)
3.10 Rainbow
3.30 Romper Room
4.00 Grub’s Up
4.30 Supercar (B&W) (Rpt)
5.00 Northwest Passage
5.30 The Flintstones (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Swiss Family Robinson
7.30 The Carol Burnett Show
8.25 The Liver Birds
9.00 Police Story
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Midweek Movie: The Thirteenth Letter (1951) (B&W)
Followed by Closedown

[PaddyTePou]

This Week’s TV: 10-16 April 1971 (CHTV3)
from The Press

Saturday 10 April 1971
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Harness Racing
Live from Addington Raceway, Christchurch
2.20 The Debbie Reynolds Show (Final)
2.45 Harness Racing
Live from Addington Raceway, Christchurch
3.00 The Patty Duke Show
3.25 Harness Racing
Live from Addington Raceway, Christchurch
3.40 Winter in Poland (Final)
4.00 Harness Racing
Live from Addington Raceway, Christchurch
4.35 Here Come the Brides
5.28 Headline News and Weather
5.31 Woody Woodpecker
5.56 In the Nature of Things
6.14 Happen Inn
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather and Local News
7.30 Note for Note
8.00 Dixon of Dock Green
8.51 Newsbrief
8.53 Name of the Games
10.17 Frost Interviews
10.57 Late News and Weather
11.04 The Dean Martin Show
Followed by Closedown

Sunday 11 April 1971 (Easter Sunday)
10.30am Easter Mass
11.30 Closedown
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Movie: Captain Horatio Hornlower (1951)
3.55 Football
FA Cup 1971 - round six
4.55 Frankie Avalon’s Easter Special
5.45 Headline News and Weather
5.48 The Magic Roundabout
5.53 Bugaloos
6.14 The Urais
6.30 Songs of Praise
7.00 Network News and Local News
7.20 Weather
7.23 Country Calendar
7.40 The Des O’Connor Show
8.32 Not in Front of the Children (Final)
9.00 Newsbrief
9.02 Dr Finlay’s Casebook
9.49 Romance Is Dead, Long Live Romance
10.33 Frontiers of the Science
11.00 Late News and Weather
11.07 Closedown

Monday 12 April 1971 (Easter Monday)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Arnie
2.27 The Glove
3.32 I Dream of Jeannie
3.47 International Zone: Cane… and Able
4.13 Sesame Street
5.09 The Smokey Bear Show
5.30 Headline News and Weather
5.33 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5.56 Get Smart
6.20 The Partridge Family
6.45 Parliament and People
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather and The South Tonight
7.40 The Bill Cosby Show
8.05 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
8.49 Newsbrief
8.51 Grandstand
9.16 Peter, Paul and Mary at the Sydney Opera House
10.12 Science and Conscience
11.09 Late News and Weather
11.16 Closedown

Tuesday 13 April 1971
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 On Camera
2.46 Then Came Bronson
3.37 The Beverly Hillbillies
4.03 Country Calendar (Rpt)
4.21 The Killy Style (Rpt)
4.45 The Alvin Show
5.16 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
5.37 Headline News and Weather
5.40 Barrier Reef
6.08 Wild Kingdom
6.34 What’s My Line?
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather and The South Tonight
7.46 Coronation Street
8.16 Focus on Antiques
8.37 Room 227
9.05 Newsbrief
9.07 Gallery
9.34 Softly, Softly: Task Force
10.31 On the Margin
11.04 Late News and Weather
11.11 Closedown

Wednesday 14 April 1971
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Thyme for Cookery
2.10 Judd for the Defence
3.08 The Val Doonican Show (Rpt)
3.55 Tomorrow Today
4.08 The Doris Day Show
4.33 Chigley
4.47 Cattanooga Cats
5.34 Headline News and Weather
5.37 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6.06 And Another Thing
6.18 Echo
6.30 Mad Movies
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather and The South Tonight
7.43 The Corbett Follies
8.10 The High Chaparral
9.04 Newsbrief
9.06 Survey
9.30 Peyton Place
10.35 Late Night Horror: Balls of Hall
11.00 Late News and Weather
11.07 Closedown

Thursday 15 April 1971
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 On Camera
2.46 Cheyenne
3.33 Bewitched
4.00 Gas Cars (Rpt)
4.09 Cesar’s World (Rpt)
4.33 Wooden Tops
4.46 Peter
4.52 The Road Runner Show
5.13 Zorro
5.41 Headline News and Weather
5.44 This Week in Britain
5.49 The Johnny Cash Show
6.40 Gardening
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather and The South Tonight
7.46 Coronation Street
8.16 It Takes a Thief
9.12 Newsbrief
9.14 Gallery
9.42 Ironside
10.37 Never Mind the Quality
11.05 Late News and Weather
11.12 Closedown

Friday 16 April 1971
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Inheritance
2.54 The Jerry Lewis Show
3.43 David Copperfield
4.08 Sesame Street
5.04 Paulus the Wood Gnome
5.15 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
5.36 Headline News and Weather
5.39 The Flying Nun (Final)
6.04 The Challenging Sea
6.30 World Report
6.50 Sports Magazine
7.00 Network News
7.15 Weather and The South Tonight
7.40 Julia
8.04 The Mod Squad
8.53 Newsbrief
8.55 Pineapple Poll
9.39 Movie: Lust for Gold (1949)
11.06 Late News and Weather
11.13 The Wild Wild West
Followed by Closedown

[Michael_S]

@PaddyTePou

4.46 Peter

What’s this show?

[PaddyTePou]

No idea but it was basically a cartoon series, I think.

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Friday 16 April 1982
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 You and Your Child
11.10 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.30 Take Kerr (Rpt)
11.35 The Bob Newhart Show (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.25 See Here
12.30 Another Town, Another Place (Final)
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 Crown Court (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Glimpses
2.20 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Once Upon a Time
3.10 Jeremy
3.20 The Shari Lewis Show (Rpt)
3.45 After School, including (all times approx):
3.50 Porky Pig (Rpt)
4.10 Time for Music
4.20 Atom Ant (Rpt)
4.40 Storybook International
5.10 Just William (Rpt)
5.35 Circus
6.00 WKRP in Cincinnati
6.25 A Word in Your Ear
6.30 News
Includes Nationwide and regional programmes - Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street
7.55 The Week with One
8.00 The Good Life
8.30 Kaleidoscope
9.45 The Dionne Quintuplets
11.10 Encore: Talent (Rpt)
12.10am News
12.15 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Dallas (Rpt)
3.20 Diff’rent Strokes
4.05 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (Rpt)
5.00 Benson (Rpt)
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News
6.10 Turf Talk
6.30 Solid Gold
7.30 Mork & Mindy
8.00 Hudson and Halls
9.00 Eye Witness News
9.45 Friday Feature: Shaft (1971)
11.30 Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club
11.55 Closedown

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Saturday 19 April 1997
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 The World Today
6.30 HARDtalk
7.00 BBC World News
7.30 World Focus - Correspondent
7.45 Te Karere
8.00 Kingdoms of Survival (G)
9.05 UK Today (G)
9.15 Are You Being Served? (PGR)
9.50 A Taste of New Zealand
10.00 Bright Ideas
11.00 Infomercials
Noon Rex Hunt’s Fishing Australia (G)
12.30 Movie: Viva Las Vegas (1964) (G)
2.15 The Andrew Newton Experience (G)
2.45 Antonio Carluccio’s Italian Feast (Part 2) (G)
3.20 The English Country Garden (G)
4.00 One World of Sport - Rugby: New Zealand’s Big Game
Super 12 - Auckland Blues v Gateung (Transvaal) Lions; full delayed coverage
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Air New Zealand Holiday (G)
7.00 Back to the Wild (Part 4) (PGR)
7.40 Coronation Street (G)
8.10 The Bill (PGR)
8.45 Best of British - Cracker: White Ghost (AO)
10.50 Movie: Miller’s Crossing (1990) (AO)
1.00am BBC World, including:
1.00 BBC World News
1.30 Reporters
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 Time Out - Island Race
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Weekend World - Pandora’s Box
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - Rhodes Around Britain
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 This Week (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Button Nose (G)
6.40 Stingray (G)
7.10 Taz-Mania (G)
7.40 Pee-wee’s Playhouse (G)
8.10 Dexter’s Laboratory (G)
8.40 The Tick (G)
9.05 Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures (PGR)
9.30 The New Spider-Man (G)
10.00 Coca-Cola Video Hits
11.00 Mai Time
Noon SeaQuest DSV (PGR)
1.00 Hawkeye (G)
2.00 MacGyver (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 American Gladiators (G)
4.00 The New Flipper (G)
5.00 McDonald’s Young Entertainers Encore (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of last Sunday’s programme
6.00 Goosebumps
6.30 The Bob Morrison Show (G)
7.00 The Great Kiwi Video Show (PGR)
7.30 Unsolved Mysteries: 100th Episode Special
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Unsolved Mysteries: 100th Episode Special (Continued)
9.35 The Wearable Arts Awards
10.30 Movie: True Colours (1991) (AO)
12.45am Movie: Murder on the Rio Grande (1993) (AO)
2.30 Movie: Killing Dad (1989) (PGR)
4.10 Tales of the Serengeti (G)
5.15 Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (PGR)
5.40 Conan the Adventurer: The Young Warriors (PGR) (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.30am The Tiki Tiki Forest Gang (G)
7.00 Marsupalami (G)
7.25 Timmy the Tooth (G)
8.00 Squirt, including:
8.05 Brand Spanking New Doug (G)
8.30 Bruno the Kid (G)
9.00 Oscar and Friends (G)
9.05 Ace Venture (G)
10.00 Monster Force (PGR)
10.30 Infomercials
Noon 20/20 (Rpt)
1.00 Star Trek (PGR)
2.00 Ice TV, including:
2.00 Beverly Hills 90210 (PGR)
3.00 Ice Core
4.30 Moesha (G)
5.00 Candid Camera (G)
5.30 World’s Greatest Commercials (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Oprah’s Celebrity Specials - Oprah Meets Cindy Crawford (G)
7.30 Touched by an Angel (PGR)
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Lookalike (1992) (PGR)
10.35 Late Movie: The Forgoten (1989) (Rpt, AO)
12.35am Infomercials (Continues to 6am)

HBO
7.30am The Making of “Babe”
8.00 Kids of the Round Table (1995) (G)
9.30 Dreamrider (1995) (PG)
11.00 Box Office America
11.30 Richie Rich (1994) (PG)
1.00pm On the Waterfront (1954) (B&W) (PG)
2.45 Major League II (1994) (PG)
4.30 Wall Street (1987) (PG)
6.30 Saturday Family Movie: Angels in the Outfield (1994) (G)
8.10 The Making of “One Fine Day”
8.30 Saturday Night Comedy: Cops and Robbersons (1994) (PG)
10.15 Full Metal Jacket (1987) (M)
12.10am Hudson Hawk (1991) (RP16)
2.00 The Secretary (1994) (M)
3.30 Major League II (1994) (PG)
5.15 Richie Rich (1994) (PG) (Continues to 7am)

Sky Sport
6.30am ESPN Direct - Dakar Rally 97
7.00 NBA Action
7.30 Racehorse Digest
8.00 Motorsport
Indy Lights - from Long Beach, California
9.00 American Muscle
9.30 Sky Sport - Supercross
AMA series from Minneapolis
11.00 PGA Golf
11.30 European Snooker League
1.00pm Pro Boxing
2.25 Rugby
Super 12 - Auckland Blues v Gauteng (Transvaal) Lions; live from Eden Park, Auckland
4.25 Tennis
4.55 Rugby League
Optus Cup - St George Dragons v Western Suburbs Magpies; live from Kogarah Oval
6.55 Cricket Hall of Fame
7.25 Rugby
Super 12 - Canterbury Crusaders v Natal Sharks; live from Lancaster Park, Christchurch
9.15 Rugby
Super 12 - Auckland Blues v Gauteng (Transvaal) Lions; highlights
9.25 Rugby League
Super League 97 - Cronulla Sharks v Adelaide Rams; live from Shark Park, Sydney
11.15 Firefighters Combat Challenge
12.00am ESPN Direct - Basketball
NBA - San Antonio Spurs v Phoenix Suns; live
1.30 Tennis
ATP Tour highlights/ATP World Series, Japan Open semifinal highlights
4.00 Football Weekend
5.00 World of Rugby
5.30 Motoworld (Continues to 6am)

CNN
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
6.00am World Business Today
7.30 World Report
8.30 Insight
9.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
9.30 World News
10.00 World View
11.30 Moneyline
12.15pm American Edition
12.30 Inside Asia
1.00 Larry King Live
2.30 Showbiz Today
3.30 World Report
4.30 Diplomatic License
5.30 World Business This Week
6.30 World Sport
7.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
7.30 Larry King (Rpt)
8.30 Future Watch
9.30 ABN This Week (Rpt)
10.00 NBC Nightly News
10.30 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
11.30 World Sport
12.30am Inside Asia
1.00 Larry King Live (Rpt)
2.30 World Sport
3.00 Future Watch
3.30 Earth Matters
4.30 Global View
5.30 Inside Asia (Continues to 6am)

Orange
6.00am Cartoon Network, including:
6.00 World’s Famous Toons
7.00 The Popeye Show
7.30 Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo
8.00 The Tom & Jerry Show
8.30 Wacky Races
9.00 Goober and the Ghost Chasers
9.30 Big Bag
10.30 Yogi’s Treasure Hunt
11.00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
11.30 Big Bag
12.30pm Timeless Tales
1.00 Dexter’s Laboratory
1.30 The Addams Family
2.00 Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
2.30 The Jetsons
3.00 Young Robin Hood
3.30 Goldie Gold and Action Jack
4.00 Prisoner
5.00 The Real World
5.30 Hang Time
6.00 Perfect Strangers
6.30 Hollyoaks
7.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
7.30 The Avengers
8.30 Orange at the Movies: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986) (PG)
10.05 World Championship Wrestling
11.00 Silk Stalkings
12.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 6am)

Discovery / Trackside
6.00am Adventures in Diving
6.30 Passport to Adventure
7.00 Great Castles of Europe
7.30 Supercities
8.00 Nature Watch
8.30 Wildlife Chronicles
9.00 In Care of Nature
9.30 Profiles of Nature (Double episode)
10.30 Crawl Into My Parlour
11.00 TAB Trackside
Includes live racing from Te Rapa, Trentham, Motukarara, Forbury Park and Australia, plus:
11.00 The Ford Australia
11.15 Saturday Scene Set
6.15pm Harness racing from Forbury Park
8.05 Interisland Horse Transport Harness Report
9.00 Harness racing from Melbourne
10.45 Final race from Forbury Park
11.00 Scientific American Frontiers
12.00am Search for Adventure
1.00 Invention
1.30 Next Step
2.00 Wings
3.00 Beyond 2000
4.00 The Big Byte
4.30 The New Explorers
5.00 Invention
5.30 Next Step (Continues to 6am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, CTV, Southern
6.30am BBC World - HARDtalk
6.30am CTV ONLY - Welcome to Canterbury until 3pm (Saturday Marketplace at 8am & 11am)
7.00 BBC World News
7.30 World Focus - Correspondent
8.00 BBC World News
8.30 Time Out - Film 97
9.00 BBC Newsdesk
CAPITAL CITY ONLY - The Hellenic Time: Kalimera SAS
SOUTHERN/ATV ONLY - BBC World News
10.00 COAST TO COAST ONLY - Pacific Highway
10.30 Home Shopping
Noon BBC World News
12.30 HARDtalk
1.00 BBC World News
1.30 World Focus - Panorama
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 World Focus - The Money Programme
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Weekend World - Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 World Focus - Window on Europe
5.00 Delia Smith’s Cookery Course
5.30 Homes and Gardens (Rpt)
6.00 One Network News
Live simulcast with TV One
6.30 Tomorrow’s World
7.00 Sportsworld
7.30 Last of the Summer Wine (Double episode)
8.40 Picket Fences (Double episode, final)
10.30 St Elsewhere
11.30 BBC World
11.30 CTV ONLY - Welcome to Canterbury until 6am
12.00am BBC World Headlines
12.05 Weekend World - Horizon
1.00 BBC World News
1.30 Reporters
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 Time Out - Island Race
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Weekend World - Pandora’s Box
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - Rhodes Around Britain
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 This Week (Continues to 6am)

MAX TV, Auckland
6.00am MAX Music Videos
9.00 Power Play
11.00 The Pulse
Noon Sport
1.00 MAX Music Videos
5.00 Levi’s New Releases
6.00 Pepsi Music Chart
9.00 MAX Music Videos (Continues to 6am)
Includes Export Gold Gig Guide at 9.10pm and 11.30pm

CRY Television, Christchurch
6.00am TV Shopping Network (Continued)
4.00pm The Comfort Spot
6.00 Planet Dance
8.00 Love Lounge Live
Includes Export Gold Gig Guide at 9.10pm
10.00 CRY Dance Club
Includes Export Gold Gig Guide at 11.30pm
12.00am TV Shopping Network (Continues to 4pm)

[PaddyTePou]

Today’s TV: Sunday 19 April 1998
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.30 World Focus - Correspondent
7.00 BBC World Headlines
7.05 In Touch
8.05 Te Kakano - Beginner’s Maori (Rpt, G)
8.30 Inside Out (G)
9.00 Praise Be
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
10.00 Waka Huia
11.00 Marae
Noon backch@t (PGR)
1.30 The Golf Show (G)
2.00 One World of Sport - Countrywide Bank Grandstand
Includes rugby (Super 12 - Otago Highlanders v Wellington Hurricanes), motorcycling (World Superbikes), boxing (World Championship Boxing - Prince Naseem Hamed v Wilfredo Vasquez) and yachting (Whitbread Round the World race - leg seven)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Our World: Savage Earth (Part 1) (G)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Montana Sunday Theatre: Midsomer Murders - The Killings at Badger’s Drift (AO)
10.35 back@chat (Rpt, PGR)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
12.05am Infomercials
1.05 BBC World, including:
1.05 BBC World News
1.30 World Living - Holiday
2.00 BBC World News
2.10 Dateline London
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Weekend World - Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 World Living - The Clothes Show
5.00 BBC World Headlines
5.05 Weekend World - How to Be a Foreign Secretary (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Zazoo U (G)
6.20 Once Upon a Time (Starting today) (G)
6.30 Casper (G)
6.45 What-a-Mess (G)
7.05 Piggsburg Pigs (Starting today (G)
7.30 Wishbone (G)
8.00 What Now (G)
Includes Stickin’ Around and Roadrovers
10.00 Video Hits - Chart Show
Noon Behind the Scenes - “Great Expectations” (Rpt, G)
12.15 What a Cartoon! (Rpt, G)
12.30 2 Sports Action - Netball
Coca-Cola Cup - Bay of Plenty Magic v Canterbury Flames; full coverage from the QEII Youth Centre, Tauranga
2.25 Roseanne (Rpt, G)
3.00 Squeeze (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Wednesday’s programme from MTV
4.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show (G)
4.30 Dave’s World (G)
5.00 Life with Louie (Starting today) (G)
5.30 KaBlam! (Starting today) (G)
6.00 Toons on 2 - The Angry Beavers (G)
6.30 Small Talk (G)
7.00 The Great Kiwi Video Show (PGR)
7.30 Trading Places (G)
8.00 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (G)
8.30 The Sunday Premiere Movie: Jurassic Park (1993) (Rpt, PGR)
11.10 The Sunday Horrors: Jason Goes to Hell - The Final Friday (1993) (AO)
12.50am Movie: Sands of Time (1992) (Rpt, AO)
2.35 Behind the Scenes - “The Rainmaker” (Rpt, PGR)
3.05 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
3.40 Good Morning (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Friday’s programme from TV One
5.35 Kenneth Copeland Daily (Continues to 6.05am)

TV3
6.00am Bayless Conley
6.30 Life Is for Living
7.00 Hour of Power
8.00 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
8.25 Garfield and Friends (Rpt, G)
8.50 The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (Rpt, G)
9.15 Jake the Kid (G)
10.00 Beyond 2000 (G)
10.45 Fiordland: Coastline of Adventure (Rpt, G)
11.35 Nissan Gone Fishin’ (Rpt, PGR)
Noon Movie: Return from Witch Mountain (1978) (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 Movie: The Man Upstairs (1992) (Rpt, PGR)
4.00 Candid Camera (Rpt, G)
4.30 3 Sport - Rugby League
NRL - North Sydney Bears v Auckland Warriors; live from the North Sydney Oval
6.10 3 News
6.30 20/20
7.30 Real TV (PGR)
8.30 Movie: Junior (1994) (PGR)
10.50 Movie: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (Rpt, AO)
1.15am Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer Life in the Word
5.30 Your Day with Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am)

TV4
Noon Infomercials
1.00 Star Trek (PGR)
2.20 Santo Bugito (G)
2.50 Pond Life (PGR)
3.00 Uncut (Rpt, PGR)
3.30 The New Music (Rpt, G)
4.30 Media Television (Rpt, G)
5.00 Arts & Minds (Rpt, G)
5.30 Fashion Television (Rpt, G)
6.00 WOW! - World of Wonder (G)
6.30 Buddies (G)
7.00 Weird Science (PGR)
7.30 Ice TV (PGR)
8.30 Movie: Murder 101 (1991) (Rpt, AO)
10.30 Movie: Frozen Assets (1992) (Rpt, AO)
12.35am TV Shopping Network (Continues to 10am)

MTV
7.00am Kickstart
9.00 So 90s
9.30 Snowball
10.00 European Top 20
Noon Now That’s What I Call Up for It
1.00 Select MTV
3.00 Spice Girls and Boyzone in Concert
4.00 Hitlist UK
5.00 MTV News Weekend Edition
5.30 Collexion: Robbie Williams
6.00 The Lick
7.00 Mai Time (Rpt)
A repeat screening of Saturday’s programme from TV2
8.00 Dance Anthems
9.00 MTV Live: Björk
9.30 Live at the Ten Spot: Jane’s Addiction
10.00 Havoc (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Thursday’s programme
11.00 Beavis and Butt-Head
11.30 Austin Stories
12.00am Music Mix
3.00 Chill Out Zone
5.00 Night Videos (Continues to 7am)

HBO
6.45am The Directors - Martha Coolidge
7.45 Gordy (1995) (G)
9.15 Box Office America
9.45 Rolling Thunders (1995) (PG)
11.15 The War (1994) (PG)
1.15pm French Kiss (1995) (M)
3.15 Restoration (1996) (M)
5.15 Alien Nation: Millennium (1995) (M)
6.45 Jumanji (1995) (PG)
8.30 Hannahs Blockbuster Premiere: Mission: Impossible (1996) (M)
10.20 A Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) (R16)
12.00am The Underneath (1995) (M)
1.35 Excessive Force 2: Force on Force (1995) (R16)
3.00 Working Girl (1988) (PG)
4.50 The Brothers McMullen (1996) (M) (Continues to 6.30am)

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Snooker
1998 Thailand Masters - semifinal two
7.00 Sky Sport - European Football Weekly
8.00 Rugby
Super 12 - Golden Cats v Chiefs; full delayed coverage
9.40 Rugby
Super 12 - Reds v Waratahs; full replay
11.20 Football
English Premier League 1997/98
1.05pm Motorsport Asia
1.25 American Muscle
1.50 Tips of the Tongue
2.20 Rugby
Super 12 - Highlanders v Hurricanes; live from Carisbrook, Dunedin
4.25 Rugby League
NRL - North Sydney Bears v Auckland Warriors; live from the North Sydney Oval
6.20 Athletics
Road Race of the Month - Carlsbad 5000
6.45 Sky Sports News
7.15 Gillette World Cup 98
7.45 Rugby
Super 12 - Golden Cats v Chiefs; highlights
8.45 Golf
PGA Tour - 1998 MCI Classic
10.15 Boxing
World Championship Boxing - Prince Naseem v Wilfredo Vazquez
12.00am Snowboard Boardercross
From Copper Mountain, Colorado
12.25 ESPN Direct - Football
Dutch football - FC Groningen v Ajax; live
2.30 Athletics
Road Race of the Month - Carlsbad 5000
3.00 Motorsport Asia
3.30 Formula 3 Magazine
4.00 Motorsport
Formula 3 - F3 South American Championship; live from Brazil
5.00 X-Games Files
5.30 Snooker
1998 Thailand Masters - final (Continues to 7am)

CNN
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
6.30am Travel Guide
7.30 Best of Q & A
8.30 Science & Technology
9.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
9.30 World Sport
10.00 World View
10.30 Inside Asia
11.30 The Art Club
Noon The World Today
12.30 Showbiz This Week
1.00 Larry King Weekend
1.30 The World Today
2.00 Travel Guide
3.30 Diplomatic License
4.30 Science & Technology (Rpt)
5.00 Digital Jam (Rpt)
5.30 Style with Elsa Klensch
6.30 World Sport
7.00 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
7.30 Larry King Weekend
8.30 Global View
10.30 Sky News (Via satellite from London)
11.30 World Sport
12.30am The Art Club
1.00 Larry King Weekend (Rpt)
2.30 World Sport (Rpt)
3.30 This Week in the NBA
4.00 Late Edition
5.30 Your Health (Continues to 6am)

Orange
6.00am Cartoon Network, including:
6.00 The Jetsons
6.30 The Flintstones
7.00 The Popeye Show
7.30 Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo
8.00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
8.30 Big Bag
9.30 Timeless Tales
10.00 The Detective Squad
11.00 Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
11.30 The Tom & Jerry Show
Noon The Bugs & Daffy Show
1.00 Casper and the Angels
1.30 The Addams Family
2.00 The Flintstones
2.30 Goober and the Ghost Chasers
3.00 Goldie Gold and Action Jack
3.30 The Detective Squad
4.00 Perfect Strangers
4.30 Designing Women
5.00 The Flying Nun
5.30 Starsky & Hutch
6.30 The A-Team
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 Orange at the Movies: A Murderous Affair 9194) (M)
10.05 LA Law
11.05 Valley of the Dolls
12.05am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 6am)

Discovery / Trackside
6.00am Invention
6.30 Next Step
7.00 Eyewitness
7.30 Movie Magic
8.00 Travellers
9.00 Lonely Planet
10.00 Born Among Wild Animals
10.30 Animal Survivors
11.00 Blue Water Dreaming
11.30 TAB Trackside
Includes live racing from Ruakaka, Waverley, Flemington (Australia) and the Hong Kong gallops, plus:
8.10pm Final race from Hong Kong
8.30 Next Step
9.00 Wild Discovery
10.00 Discovery Showcase
11.00 Science Frontiers
12.00am Discovery Profile Series
1.00 Discover Magazine
2.00 Wings
3.00 High Adventure
3.30 Outer Bounds
4.00 The New Explorers
4.30 The Adventurers
5.00 Blue Water Dreaming (Continues to 6am)

CHTV, Christchurch
6.00am EWTN
11.00 Hour of Power
Noon City Life
1.00 Hopkins
2.00 Bloomberg
2.15 Welcome to Canterbury
6.00 Hour of Power (Rpt)
7.00 City Life (Rpt)
8.00 Brian Tucker’s People
9.00 An Evening with Shakespeare
12.00am World News
12.15 Welcome to Canterbury (Continues to 6am)

Hawke’s Bay Television
Noon Sports Pacific Network
4.00 Shopfront Hawkes Bay
4.30 Video Box
5.30 Journal
6.00 Made in Germany
6.30 Texas Parks and Wildlife
7.00 Church and Society
7.15 Scienceworld
7.30 Tomorrow Today
8.00 Alice
8.30 Hans Kollhoff
9.00 Pictures That Make the World
9.30 Boulevard Germany
10.00 Bluegrass Festival
11.00 Sports Pacific Network
12.00am TV Shopping Network (Continues to noon)

[OnAir]

@PaddyTePou

8.00 Squirt, including:

Forgot Squirt started out on TV3

[Michael_S]

@PaddyTePou

6.00am Button Moon (G)

Is this the British series or a different one?

[PaddyTePou]

It was Button Nose, not Button Moon. I accidentally put Button Moon in the previous post.

[PaddyTePou]

@OnAir

Forgot Squirt started out on TV3

@OnAir That’s right. When Squirt began it was shown on TV3 (now Three) in 1996 and within the next year, TVNZ picked it up. With Spike, the computer-animated penguin - and successive hosts like Tom Robins, Dominic Bowden, Matt Gibb, Ryan Inglis, Kanoa Lloyd and Jo Holley - the Saturday morning show ran for 10 years and finished in 2006.