Today’s TV: Monday 24 July 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.30am Sports Special - Golf
British Open 1989 - final round, live
8.30 (approx) Closedown
9.55 Teletext in Vision
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt)
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Rainbow
11.15 The Smurfs (Rpt)
11.40 Amigo and Friends
11.45 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Days of Our Lives
2.10 Coronation Street (Rpt)
A repeat of last Thursday and Friday’s episodes
3.05 Massage (Part 4)
3.35 Nature Watch
4.15 In Loving Memory (Starting today)
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 EastEnders
7.30 Matlock
8.30 Bust
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 Wide World of Sport
Includes rugby league (1989 Winfield Cup) and golf (British Open highlights)
12.00am Closedown
Network Two
10.50am Teletext in Vision
11.05 The Young and the Restless
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 Taxi (Rpt)
12.55 The Love Boat (Rpt)
1.55 Three’s Company (Rpt)
2.20 After 2, including:
2.21 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 Dr Snuggles (Rpt)
3.00 Zoobilee Zoo
3.20 Square One
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Danger Mouse (Rpt)
4.05 Danger Bay
4.40 RTR Megamix
5.10 The Mostly Useful Job Guide
5.40 Newsbreak and Regional Programmes
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Flying Doctors
8.30 China Beach
9.30 The Twilight Zone (Three episodes)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Entertainment This Week
11.30 The Untouchables
12.30am Closedown
This week (24-28 July 1989) was the final week in which “Sale of the Century” aired on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) at 7pm. Within the next week (31 July), ‘New Zealand’s richest quiz show’ was moved to TV One (now TVNZ 1) in the same timeslot and the Australian soap “Neighbours” was moved to a double episode format from 6.30-7.30pm.
“EastEnders” was moved from individual half hour episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays at 7pm on TV One to double episodes on Wednesdays at around 10.35pm on Network Two (right after the 10.30pm newsbreak).
@OnAir, what do you think?