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Today’s TV: Wednesday 30 October 1985
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.55 Tai Chi
11.00 Crossroads
11.20 Paddington Bear (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.00 The New Adventures of Pinocchio
3.05 Chic Chat (Rpt)
3.35 After School, including:
3.38 Mika
3.56 The Edison Twins (Starting today0
4.22 Anthony Savill’s Small Wood - Rats
4.30 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
4.55 Moonfleet (Part 6, final)
5.30 Terrahawks
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Credit Card
8.00 Charles in Charge
8.30 Tenko
9.30 Full House
10.00 Paper Dolls
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
Noon The Midday Movie: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967) (Rpt)
1.55 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (Final) (Rpt)
2.30 General Hospital
3.50 Fantasy Island
4.40 Bewitched (Rpt)
5.10 RTR Video Releases
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans (Double episode)
7.30 Our World - 2000 Feet Deep: An Ocean Odyssey
8.30 The A-Team
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Mr Palfrey of Westminster
11.00 Mannix
11.55 Closedown

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Yes, I have the listings for the premiere of Terry and the Gunrunners. The six-part series aired on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 6.25pm on Sunday nights from 13 April 1986.

Extra: Sunday 13 April 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.10am Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
7.00 Sesame Street (Rpt)
8.00 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (Rpt)
8.20 Warner Bros Cartoons
8.30 Praise Be
9.00 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (Rpt)
9.30 Big League Soccer
10.20 British Football Results 1985/86
10.30 Weekend
Noon Agreport
12.15 Dig This (Rpt)
12.30 Three Potters (Starting today, part 1)
1.05 The Least Funny Thing in th World
1.50 Love Those Trains
3.00 Silence to Silence
4.20 Opus
5.05 Growing Pains
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Day One
6.30 News
6.45 Koha
7.00 Entertainment Showcase - My Kind of Music (Part 4, final)
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Ever Decreasing Circles
8.25 Palace of Dreams
9.15 News
9.30 Sunday
10.00 Play of the Week - A Life (Part 1)
11.00 News
11.05 Danger Man (B&W) (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown

TV2
7.00am Sports Special
Includes tennis (1986 WCT Finals - semifinal, live from Dallas, Texas) and golf (1986 US Masters - round three, live from Augusta, Georgia)
11.00 Family Hour Festival
11.45 Science International
11.50 Mr Magoo
Noon Sunday Matinee: The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.35 Here’s Lucy
2.00 Jazz Seen
2.50 I Am Joe’s Skin
3.15 Woolly Valley
3.20 The Wind in the Willows
3.40 Supergran
4.10 Sunday Grandstand
Includes yachting, basketball and rugby (Wellington v NSW)
5.55 News
6.00 Seaview (Starting tonight)
6.25 Terry and the Gunrunners (Starting tonight, part 1)
6.50 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Diff’rent Strokes
7.25 Sunday Movie: The Children of an Lac (1980)
9.00 Viewfinder
9.30 Radio with Pictures
10.30 The Sunday Horrors: The Late Nancy Irving (1985)
11.40 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 31 October 1973
from The Press

CHTV3
2.00pm Headline News and Weather
2.05 Matinee Movie: Petticoat Pirates (1961)
3.33 The Ham’s Wide World (Rpt)
4.02 The Doris Day Show
4.26 France Panorama / Clutch Cargo
4.47 Houndcats
5.08 The Adventures of Black Beauty
5.37 News
5.41 Great Zoos of the World (Rpt)
6.14 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6.42 Thyme for Cookery (Starting tonight)
7.00 Network News
7.22 The South Tonight
7.45 Conversion to Colour
7.48 Thrillseekers (Starting tonight) (C)
8.16 Marcus Welby MD
9.14 Newsbrief
9.16 Inquiry (C)
9.44 The Odd Couple (C)
10.13 Sporting Life (C)
10.46 Late News and Weather
10.52 Closedown

@OnAir @TelevisionAU Today is 31 October… and it’s happy birthday from me. But on this day in 1973, it was “C-Day” for us as New Zealanders as colour television came to our country - just in time for the 1974 Commonwealth Games, which were to be held in Christchurch in January and February 1974. Most of the NZBC’s New Zealand-made programmes continued to be broadcast in black and white, and some of which were converted to colour. Imports, however, were broadcast in colour.

In February 1975, black-and-white television sets cost on average $350 (equivalent to $3,900 in December 2021) while colour television sets cost on average $840 (equivalent to $9,400 in December 2021).

The final switchover for colour television in New Zealand was in December 1975.

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Apparently the opening ceremony of the Sydney Opera House on 20 October 1973 was shown in colour in NZ. Although ABC produced the telecast in colour, Australians watched it in black and white.

Happy birthday too :partying_face:

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Thanks, @TelevisionAU.

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Today’s TV: Sunday 1 November 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.00am Church Service - The Centennial Eucharist
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.55 Tomorrow’s World
1.00 Farming Today
1.15 Dig This
1.30 Of Course You Can Do It
2.00 Sunday Afternoon Movie: Here Comes the Groom (1951) (B&W) (Rpt)
3.50 New Animated Flash Gordon
4.15 The Wonderful World of Disney = Cartoon Carousel
5.30 Spot On
6.00 People Like Us
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Louise and Friends
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Madame Bovary (Part 2)
8.50 News
9.00 Newsmakers
9.30 Offerings
9.35 Play of the Week - The Sound of the Guns
10.50 News
10.55 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: Fastest Gun Alive (1956) (B&W)
1.25 The Liver Birds (Rpt)
2.00 Brahms Violin Concerto in D Opus 77
2.45 The Last Tasmanian
3.45 Flambards
4.40 Singapore: One Man’s Dream
5.30 Stars on Sunday
5.55 News
6.00 Our World - Steens Mountain
6.50 The Week with Two
7.00 Three’s Company
7.25 Sunday Feature: The Lost Man (1969)
9.10 Radio with Pictures
10.00 Charlie’s Angels
10.50 Closedown

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Extra: Sunday 18 October 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.55 Tomorrow’s World
1.00 Farming Today
1.15 Dig This
1.30 Of Course You Can Do It
2.00 Sunday Afternoon Movie: Father Goose (1964) (Rpt)
3.50 The Royal Visit 1981 - The Prince Philip Design Awards
4.20 The All New Popeye Show
4.40 The Wonderful World of Disney - Disneyland 25th Anniversary Special
5.30 Spot On Special (Rpt)
6.00 The Herd
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Landmarks
7.50 Country Calendar
8.05 The Good Companions (Final)
8.55 News
9.05 Newsmakers
9.35 Offerings
9.40 Play of the Week - Giants and Ogres
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee: The Road to Denver (1955) (Rpt)
1.25 The Liver Birds (Rpt)
2.00 Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman in Concert (Part 1)
2.45 Once in a Lifetime (Final)
3.25 Arthritis
3.40 Flambards
4.30 National Geographic Special - The Invisible World
5.30 Stars on Sunday
5.55 News
6.00 Our World - The Last Roundup
6.50 The Week with Two
7.00 Three’s Company
7.25 The Project
8.05 1981 Royal Variety Performance
Recorded at St James Theatre in Auckland, and presented by the Auckland City Council for HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh

10.05 Charlie’s Angels
10.50 Closedown

The 1981 Royal Variety Performance was shown on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) as a delayed telecast at 8.05pm on the evening of Sunday 18 October 1981. It was given two nights earlier by the Auckland City Council (now Auckland Council) for HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, who both died recently. John Hayden was the announcer.

The many performers in Auckland’s St James Theatre included Michael Houstoun, the Rodger Fox Big Band, Mavis Rivers, John Rowles, Ray Columbus (in That’s Country mode), Ray Woolf, (Sir) Howard Morrison, Tina Cross, Sharon O’Neill, Tom Sharplin and many others. Dance was represented by Limbs and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, while comedy was provided by Billy T James, Lynn of Tawa (Ginette McDonald) and McPhail and Gadsby, with an all singing, all dancing finale to finish off. The show was compered by the late Peter Sinclair.

You can watch the 1981 Royal Variety Performance via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

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Do you have any tv listings for Melbourne Cup in the 1990-1999

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Yes, I have the listings for the 1990 Melbourne Cup which was won by Kingston Rule, arguably the best bred horse to win the Cup.

Extra: Tuesday 6 November 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.40 Rainbow (G)
10.55 Roobarb (Rpt, G)
11.00 All Creatures Great and Small (Rpt, G)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.05 Film on One: Rome Adventure (1962) (G)
1.55 Reap the Whirlwind
2.50 Ann Jillian (G)
3.20 One World of Sport - Racing Special, including:
3.25 Firestone Eurosteels Free-for-All - live from Addington
4.05 DB Draught NZ Cup - live from Addington
4.40 1990 Melbourne Cup - live from Flemington
5.05 Liquorland Sires Stakes Final - live from from Addington
5.20 North and South Island Programmes
NORTH
5.20 Te Karere
5.30 George and Mildred (Rpt, G)
SOUTH
5.20 Bugs Bunny (G)
5.35 Te Karere
5.45 The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) / The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Neighbourhood Watch
8.00 Never the Twain (G)
8.30 Tuesday Documentary - Aids Babies: Somebody’s Child
9.30 May to December (G)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Crossfire (Part 3) (AO)
11.45 In Sickness and in Health (PGR)
12.20am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Gumby Adventures
7.00 The Flintstones (G)
7.30 Magilla Gorilla (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 The Smurfs
9.00 Captain Pugwash (Rpt, G)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 Streets Apart (G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Sugar and Spice (Final)
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 Paddington Bear (Final) (G)
3.15 Seabert (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 The Ewoks
4.20 The California Raisin Show
5.00 Charles in Charge (Starting tonight) (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Family Ties (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode) (G)
7.30 Cheers (Rpt, G)
8.00 Night Court (PGR)
8.30 Paradise (PGR)
9.30 Wiseguy (PGR)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Double episode) (Rpt, AO)
11.50 Closedown

TV3
Noon Gems (Double episode) (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 (Rpt, G)
3.30 DuckTales (G)
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (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 McPhail and Gadsby - 1990: The Issues (Final) (G)
8.30 In the Heat of the Night (AO)
9.30 Hunter (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 The Master (AO)
12.00am Closedown

Sky Sport
Noon Magic Years in Sport: 1978
12.30 Horse Racing
1990 Melbourne Cup - live from Flemington
6.00 Motorsport
Off-Road Grand Prix
6.30 Horse Racing
California Cup
7.00 Sky Sports Week
8.00 Spanish Football
9.00 American Football
12.00am Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Doctor in Clover (1965) (GA)
2.00 Getting Married at Buffalo Jump (GA)
4.00 Frog Dreaming (1985) (GY)
6.00 Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) (GA)
7.54 Sky Hollywood Report
8.00 Gotcha! (1985)
10.00 Backlash (1986) (GY)
11.40 Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newshour
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
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 (9pm bulletin)
7.30 Newsnight Update
8.30 CNN Sports
9.00 Newsnight Update
9.45 CNN Newsroom
10.00 Larry King Overnight
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Early Bird News
12.00am Daybreak
12.30 Business Morning
1.00 Daybreak
1.30 Business Day
2.00 Daybreak
3.00 CNN Morning News
4.00 World Day
5.00 Daywatch (Continues to 6am)

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1990 TV coverage only lasts for half an hour middled with homegrown cup races

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Today’s TV: Monday 3 November 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
4.30am Sport on One Special
New York Marathon - live from New York
7.30 Closedown
9.00 Play School (Rpt)
9.25 Button Moon
9.35 The Moomins
9.40 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.45 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 A Big Country
11.00 News
11.02 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Butterflies (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.00 Wil Cwac Cwac
3.05 Mooncat and Co
3.20 Tales from Fat Tulip’s Garden
3.30 After School, including:
3.33 Cantinflas
3.38 Once Upon a Story
3.50 The Electric Company
4.18 Anthony Savill’s Small World
4.28 The Edison Twins
4.55 W-3
5.25 Grange Hill
6.00 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Credit Card
8.30 The Golden Girls
9.00 Hill Street Blues
10.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
11.00 News
11.05 The Blue Knight (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
Noon Petticoat Junction (Rpt)
12.30 America’s Cup: Challenge Round - Race Report
12.45 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.35 The Love Boat (Special feature-length episode)
5.05 The Young Doctors
5.30 America’s Cup: Challenge Round - Race Report (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes
7.30 Benson
8.00 Riptide
9.00 Heart of the High Country (Starting tonight)
10.00 Eye Witness News
11.00 Jazz Seen - To the Count of Basie (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown

@OnAir @TV4 @nztv @NuStraya On the evening of Monday 3 November 1986, TVNZ revamped the main evening news bulletin to make use of the most modern equipment provided. Technical staff had worked long hours over the final weeks of October 1986 to get that equipment installed.

At the same time, the evening news bulletin was rebranded as the “Network News” and had two new co-anchors: Judy Bailey (from Top Half) and Neil Billington. TVNZ, under Julian Mounter as then-CEO, wanted a fresh new look by adopting a double head newsreader format, but what the audience didn’t like was the removal of existing newsreaders Philip Sherry and Tom Bradley from the bulletin.

Philip Sherry (news) and Richard Long (sport)
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The late Philip Sherry reading TVNZ’s 6.30pm news bulletin with Richard Long on sport. (Image courtesy of TVNZ and The University of Auckland/Chapman Archive. No copyright infringement intended.)

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This Week’s TV: 1-7 November 1969 (CHTV3)
from The Press

Saturday 1 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 The Contestants
2.29 Mechanical Cow
2.33 Get Smart (Rpt)
2.59 The Making of an All Black (Rpt)
3.59 Science Special
4.55 Bonanza
5.48 Sports Magazine
5.59 Headline News and Weather
6.01 Joe 90
6.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6.57 Personality Squares
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 News
7.54 Mission: Impossible
8.49 Saturday Movie: Winchester 73 (1950)
10.33 Japan Screen Topics
10.49 Late News and Weather
10.56 The FBI
Followed by Closedown

Sunday 2 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 World Scene
2.23 Sunday Matinee: The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
3.58 Golf
1969 British Open Golf Championship
5.28 The Living Stone
6.00 Headline News and Weather
6.03 The Basil Brush Show
6.33 The Railway Children
7.00 Dialogue
7.15 Country Calendar
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 News
7.48 Looking at New Zealand
8.04 The Alpha Plan (Part 6, final)
8.37 The Air Jam
9.02 Champion House
9.52 Repercussion
10.07 The Night Sky
10.32 Masterworks
10.53 The New Week
10.58 Late News and Weather
11.05 Closedown

Monday 3 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 My Friend Tony
2.53 The Big Valley
3.41 Around the World of Mike Todd
4.31 Sinbad Junior
4.36 The Magic Roundabout
4.41 Mr Punch
5.31 Family Affair
5.56 Headline News and Weather
5.58 Carousel
6.11 Dr Who
6.36 Best Sellers
7.03 The Ghost and Mrs Muir
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 Network News (Starting tonight) / Town and Around
8.10 1969 General Election - Opening Addresses
8.55 Grandstands
9.15 The Gunpowder Plot
10.17 Tonight in Person
10.48 Late News and Weather
10.55 Closedown

Tuesday 4 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.04 On Camera
2.46 Petticoat Junction
3.12 Dr Kildare
3.38 The Jerry Lewis Show
4.27 Casper the Friendly Ghost
4.47 Captain Zephos
5.13 Candid Camera
5.39 This Week in Britain
5.44 Headline News and Weather
5.46 Lost in Space
6.41 Down to Earth
6.57 Coronation Street
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 Network News / Town and Around
8.10 1969 General Election - Opening Addresses
8.43 Sedco 315F
8.58 Marty
9.32 The Outcasts
10.29 This Week
10.45 Late News and Weather
10.52 Closedown

Wednesday 5 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 The Frost Interview
2.42 Hawaii Five-O
3.34 Transtel Magazine
3.49 Green Acres
4.14 Country Calendar
4.30 Sinbad Junior
4.35 Speed Racer
4.58 Kid Set
5.28 Lassie
5.58 Headline News and Weather
6.01 Cesar’s World
6.29 The Andy Griffith Show
6.57 The Country Touch
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 Network News / Town and Around
8.00 Column Comment
8.10 1969 General Election - Opening Addresses
8.55 The First Lady
9.49 Peyton Place
10.41 Mr John Jorrocks
11.09 Late News and Weather
11.16 Closedown

Thursday 6 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 On Camera
2.45 The Mothers-in-Law
3.12 Man Alive
3.41 Riptide
4.32 Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
4.37 Dan
4.48 Beany and Cecil
5.08 The Night Sky
5.35 Partners in View
5.50 Headline News and Weather
5.53 Daktari
6.47 Coronation Street
7.20 1969 General Election - Opening Addresses
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 Network News / Town and Around
8.10 It Takes a Thief
9.05 Once More with Felix
9.39 Landscape
10.03 Garrison’s Gorillas
10.57 Late News and Weather
11.04 Closedown

Friday 7 November 1969
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Blackmail
2.51 Workshop
3.52 Bewitched
4.17 Pitsea Market
4.21 Lawman
4.46 Filopat and Patafil
4.51 The Magic Roundabout
4.56 Dodo the Kid from Outer Space
5.01 Sinbad Junior
5.06 Ooky Spooky Club
5.35 Sexton Blake
6.00 Headline News and Weather
6.02 Disneyland
6.52 The Good Guys
7.18 Sports Magazine
7.30 Weather Forecast
7.33 Network News / Town and Around
8.06 The Revenue Men
8.58 Gallery
9.24 Friday Movie
11.13 Late News and Weather
11.20 Mannix
Followed by Closedown

On the evening of Monday 3 November 1969, the first ever NZBC Network News was broadcast to the whole of New Zealand from the studios of WNTV1 in Wellington.

Two years of experimental linking for special event telecasts, and firm pressure on the engineers to meet deadline of the 1969 general election, brought the NZBC’s permanent national network link into use. It was hardly a perfect system, at least six manual switching points were necessary up and down the country where technicians waited for cue words and a black caption with small letters in the corner to change the direction of audio and video feeds… but it worked.

Dougal Stevenson (circa 1969)
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Dougal Stevenson (pictured above) took the honours of the first network newsreader from a roster which included Bill Toft, Philip Sherry and Stewart MacPherson. The programme was prepared by Doug Eckhoff and directed by Mike Mune, with stories of political upheavals in India and Australia, and a New Zealand election preview from parliamentary reporter Dave Inglis. Christchurch’s CHTV3 injected the first non-Wellington story to the network with a report on a communications blackout in Antarctica… and in Auckland (via AKTV2) the seamen’s strike continued.

All went relatively smoothly, and the Network News now had an instantaneous nightly audience in over half a million New Zealand homes.

Image credit: Supplied. No copyright infringement intended.

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Do you have any listings for Under the Mountain in 1981?

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 8 November 1989
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Play School (Rpt)
10.35 Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
10.45 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
10.55 Crossroads (Double episode)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Film on One: The Hasty Heart (1949) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.55 Strike It Rich (Rpt)
3.00 Hotel
3.50 Coming of Age
4.20 Sports Special - Racing
NZ 2000 Guineas - live from Riccarton Park, Christchurch
4.50 Tomorrow’s World
5.05 Te Karere
5.15 Sons and Daughters
5.50 Whitbread Report
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Rediscovery of the World (Starting tonight)
8.30 Taggart - The Killing Philosophy (Part 3, final)
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 The Equalizer
10.55 Late Starter
11.55 Closedown
3.35am Rugby Special
Leinster v NZ - live from Lansdowne Road, Dublin (highlights from 7-8am)
5.30 (approx) Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Telebugs
6.35 Space Ghost and Herculoids
7.00 Breakfast News
7.30 The Flintstone Kids
8.00 Breakfast News (Update)
8.05 Babar
8.30 Two by Two
8.50 Sesame Street
9.50 Sooty
10.10 Just Good Friends (Rpt)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
1.55 We Got It Made
2.20 After 2, including:
2.21 Play School (Rpt)
2.45 Care Bears
3.10 Bananaman (Rpt)
3.15 The Electric Company (Rpt)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Bugs Bunny and Friends (Rpt)
4.05 The Yogi Bear Show
4.40 The Video Dispatch
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 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode)
7.30 Gloss
8.30 The Star Movie: Funny Lady (1975) (Rpt)
11.15 Newsbreak
11.20 The Two Ronnies (Rpt)
12.15am British Comedy Classics: Where’s Jack? (1968)
2.20 Closedown

Before Breakfast came along, breakfast television was introduced to TVNZ’s Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) in November 1989 with an early morning news service called Breakfast News with Tom Bradley as anchor and Penelope Barr as weather presenter.

Breakfast News - which consisted of overnight stories, a business news summary and weather forecasts - aired on Channel 2 initially as a half hour bulletin at 7am with a five-minute news and weather update at 8am. The first edition of Breakfast News was broadcast on the morning of Monday 6 November 1989.

Within days of launch, TVNZ attempted to rebrand Breakfast News as Good Morning New Zealand but, when it came to ‘copycatting and premeditated plagiarism’, faced legal action against RNZ over the name “Good Morning New Zealand”, which was a three-hour morning news and information programme on National Radio (now RNZ National). In fact, RNZ had lodged an application in the High Court in Wellington for an injunction to stop TVNZ using the name.

Lodged under the Fair Trading Act, the application claimed TVNZ was using a brand name for its own commercial advantage and implied that its morning programme had a similar level of quality of information service as the radio programme. As a result, TVNZ had to revert back to its old name, Breakfast News.

Meanwhile, TV One (now TVNZ 1) closed down at 11.55pm on the evening of Wednesday 8 November 1989 and resumed at 3.35am the next morning (Thu 9 Nov) for live coverage of the Leinster v All Blacks match at Lansdowne Road in Dublin before it ended transmission (at approx 5.30am). It resumed transmission again at 7am with an hour of rugby highlights, followed by a further closedown (at 8am), then regular programming on TV One at 10.10am.

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1095

Do you have any listings for Under The Mountain in 1981? Plus do you have any listings for 1991 NZ Trotting Cup?

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Extra: Tuesday 27 October 1981
from the NZ Listener (requested by @Sheldon_Betteridge)

TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show
11.25 Jazzercise
11.30 Are You Being Served?
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Crown Court (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.50 Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 After School, including:
4.00 Take Hart
4.20 Tomfoolery (Rpt)
4.45 Video Dispatch
5.05 The Beachcombers
5.30 Grange Hill
6.00 Under the Mountain - “The Alien World Below” (Part 4)

6.30 News
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
7.30 South (Dunedin)
8.00 Motorshow
8.30 The Mallens (Part 6, final)
9.30 Rowan Atkinson Presents Canned Laughter
10.00 A Divorce (Part 3, final)
11.05 News
11.10 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.30 General Hospital
4.00 Eight Is Enough (Final)
5.00 Solid Gold
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Nobody’s Perfect
7.00 Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World
7.30 The Onedin Line
8.30 Escape (Part 2)
9.30 Eye Witness
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 On the Mat
11.00 Kojak
11.55 Closedown

I have a request regarding any listings for the made-for-television adaptation of Maurice Gee’s 1979 novel, Under the Mountain. It was produced in-house by TVNZ and broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 6pm on Tuesday nights from 6 October until 24 November 1981.

Under the Mountain was a sci-fi series which consisted of eight episodes (all of which were written by Ken Catran) and followed the adventures of teenage twin siblings, Rachel and Theo (played by Kirsty Wilkinson and Lance Warren).

I only have a sample of those listings for Under the Mountain where episode four, “The Alien World Below”, is available on NZ On Screen (click the link above to watch).

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1097

Today’s TV: Thursday 9 November 1989
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 Rugby Special
Leinster v NZ - highlights
8.00 Closedown
10.10 Play School (Rpt)
10.35 Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
10.45 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
10.55 Crossroads (Double episode)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Film on One: Family Sins (1987)
2.00 Strike It Rich
2.55 Knots Landing
4.10 Too Close for Comfort
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 Mobil Sportsnight
Includes rugby league (Hull v Kiwis), Melbourne Cup (post-race analysis) and motorsport (all-terrain-vehicles/ATV)
11.00 Return of the Saint (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Telebugs
6.35 Fantastic Max
7.00 Breakfast News
7.30 Inch High Private Eye
8.00 Breakfast News (Update)
8.05 Babar
8.30 Chigley
8.50 Sesame Street
9.50 Grimm’s Fairy Tales
10.15 Just Good Friends (Rpt)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
1.55 Small Wonder
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)
4.05 Denver, the Last Dinosaur
4.40 Mr Majeika
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 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode)
7.30 The Comedy Company
8.30 Tour of Duty
9.30 The Twilight Zone (Double episode)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Dallas
11.35 Late Night Movie: Hawk the Slayer (1980)
1.15am Closedown

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1098

Today’s TV: Monday 10 November 1975
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
Noon Note for Note
12.30 Lunchbox
12.35 The Young and the Restless
1.00 Today at One
1.30 Days of Our Lives
1.50 Scotch Corner
2.15 Harriet’s Back in Town
2.40 Survival
3.05 Play School
3.35 Sesame Street
4.35 Mr Cartoon
4.45 The Tomorrow People
5.10 Ready to Roll
5.45 Happy Days
6.10 This Week in Britain
6.15 Dig This
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Party Political Broadcast (National Party)
7.03 Close to Home
7.30 Rising Damp (Series premiere)
8.00 Party Political Broadcast (Labour Party)
8.45 Motor Show
9.00 Tonight at Nine
9.30 The Japanese Experience
10.20 The Villains
11.10 News and Weather
11.15 Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm The Box
Different episodes of this programme air in Auckland/Waikato/Bay of Plenty and Canterbury
1.25 Speakeasy
2.00 Search for Tomorrow
2.25 Dinah!
3.10 Romper Room
3.40 Rainbow
4.00 Rupert Bear
4.15 Now C Here
4.45 Yogi’s Gang (Rpt)
5.10 The Partridge Family (Rpt)
5.40 The Flintstones (Rpt)
6.00 My Three Sons
6.30 Concentration
7.00 News - The Seven O’Clock Report
7.10 Regional Magazines
Two at Seven (Auckland/Waikato/Bay of Plenty)
Points South (Canterbury)
7.30 The Magician
8.25 My Wife Next Door
9.00 Softly, Softly: Task Force
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Emergency!
11.30 (approx) Closedown

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Wow that is good that we have a competing channel in the 1970s till multiple competitions today, so do you have any tv listings for 1986 New Zealand Music Awards?

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@Sheldon_Betteridge Sadly, there was no TV coverage of the 1986 New Zealand Music Awards but I do have the listings for 1985 which was hosted from the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington by Steve Parr.

Extra: Monday 11 November 1985
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.55 Tai Chi
11.00 Crossroads
11.20 Paddington Bear (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.00 Mariolino
3.05 Chic Chat (Rpt)
3.35 After School, including:
3.36 Once Upon a Story
3.50 The Electric Company
4.20 Sara Baxendell’s Bookworm
4.28 Secret Valley
5.00 W-3
5.30 World of Sport
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 The Paper Chase: The Second Year
8.30 The 1985 NZ Music Awards
Live from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
10.00 Singles (Final)
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
Noon The Midday Movie: Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
1.40 Today in France
1.55 Dad’s Army (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.25 Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
3.55 Prairie Coulee
4.15 Monday Afternoon Movie: The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Facts of Life
7.00 Man About the House (Rpt)
7.30 Riptide
8.30 The Immigrants (Part 3)
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Sports Special - Cricket
Australia v New Zealand - first test, day five (highlights from the Gabba in Brisbane)
10.30 Trapper John MD
11.25 Quincy
12.20am Closedown

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