- What is this show?
- Shouldn’t it be Gustavus?
That’s outrageous how an adult show was put on early morning Sunday.
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Today’s TV: Thursday 14 January 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.45am Aerobics Oz Style
11.10 Play School (Rpt)
11.35 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Beau Geste (Rpt)
12.30 For Valour (Rpt)
12.55 Three’s Company (Rpt)
1.25 The Invisible Man (Rpt)
2.15 Afternoon Movie: Dark Waters (1944) (B&W)
3.55 The Volga (Rpt)
5.00 Crossroads
5.30 Emmerdale Farm
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 All in Good Faith
7.55 Maelstrom (Part 2)
8.55 Taggart - Killer (Part one)
9.55 News
10.10 Midweek Movie: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
Network Two
Noon Love Connection
12.30 That’s Incredible! (Rpt)
1.15 The Brothers (Rpt)
2.10 A Family at War (Rpt)
3.00 Sesame Street (Rpt)
4.00 Lucky Luke (Rpt)
4.30 Blake’s 7 (Rpt)
5.30 Private Benjamin (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Scarecrow and Mrs King
7.30 Remington Steele
8.30 Mini-Series: The Fifth Missile (Part 1)
10.15 Soap (Rpt)
10.45 St Elsewhere
11.40 Closedown
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Hello Paddy, Do you have any listings on the Premiere of Judging Amy on New Zealand TV? Was it on TV2?
No, I haven’t. From memory it was shown on TV One (now TVNZ 1).
Today’s TV: Tuesday 15 January 1985
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.50am Sport on One Special - International Cricket
NZ v Pakistan - second ODI; live from Seddon Park, Hamilton
2.30pm Bewitched (Rpt)
3.00 Sport on One Special - International Cricket (Continued)
NZ v Pakistan - second ODI; live from Seddon Park, Hamilton
7.00 News
7.30 Coronation Street (Double episode)
8.30 Space Women
9.30 Widows (Part 2) (Rpt)
10.30 Summertime Movie: The Sniper (1952) (B&W) (Rpt)
12.05am News
12.10 Late Movie: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) (Rpt)
1.05 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Eight Is Enough (Rpt)
3.25 The World of Survival (Rpt)
3.55 Tuesday Afternoon Movie: Dead Reckoning (1947) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.50 News
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans (Double episode)
7.30 Remington Steele
8.30 Mini-Series: Shōgun (Part 4) (Rpt)
10.15 News
10.25 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt)
10.55 Hawaii Five-O
11.55 Closedown
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Paddy, Isn’t TV2 usually reserved to American programming by the rules of TVNZ because TV One would never be a right fit for American dramas around that time between the late 1980s to the early 2000s. TV One usually have British programming dominates the imported programming on the network. Judging Amy would later replay on Prime according to Wikipedia.
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Many US dramas - Cagney & Lacey, Dynasty, The Equalizer, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote and St Elsewhere to name just a few - used to air on TV One (now TVNZ 1) during that time as there was no room for those on Network Two/Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2).
Wiseguy was first shown on Network Two during 1988 and then repeated on TV One on a Tuesday night during the summer of 1988/89 before returning to its rightful home on Channel 2 a year later.
Spenser: For Hire was shown on TV One on a Friday night during the summer of 1989/90 but moved to Channel 2 in a Wednesday night slot (after the midweek ‘star movie’).
There was also High Risk in 1991.
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TV2 would have more room for US Dramas since the launch of TV3 end of 1989, by start of 2004 American dramas would have a mainstay on TV One’s schedules once more after the BBC deal ended in 2003.
Today’s TV: Saturday 17 January 1976
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Sport on One
Includes racing preview and “Vintage Rugby” (England v NZ - 1963)
11.00 Of Course You Can Do It
11.30 African Elephant
Noon Saturday Matinee: The Purple Hills (1961)
1.00 News
1.05 Sport on One
Includes racing from Trentham, tennis and bowls (from Dunedin)
5.00 The Swiss Family Robinson
5.30 The Iron Horse
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The Waltons
8.00 Jokers Wild
8.30 News
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Beau Brummell (1954)
10.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Curtain Up (1952) (B&W)
11.55 News and Weather
12.00am Closedown
TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Free Time (Rpt)
2.00 Dinah!
2.50 Saturday Matinee: Please Turn Over (1960) (B&W)
4.15 Woody Woodpecker (Rpt)
4.40 The Pink Panther Show (Rpt)
5.00 Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
5.30 The Runaway Summer (Rpt)
6.00 News - The Six O’Clock Report
6.15 Annie and the Hoods
7.10 The Mod Squad
8.05 Saturday Premiere Movie: I Deal in Danger (1966)
9.50 Late News
10.05 Barnaby Jones
11.00 Journey to the Unknown (B&W) (Rpt)
11.55 (approx) Closedown
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified.
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Thanks Paddy. On Friday, August the 19th 1988, I’m sure was the start of the TV2 music weekend. They had concerts and documentaries, I think up until midnight on Sunday the 21st of August. I’m sure it was a one-off and it was very popular.
I seem to remember sometime in November of 1988, TV2 had a Doctor Who weekend, which celebrated 25 years of Doctor Who and they played old and current episodes. Great days of Television.
@Skud Here are the full listings for The Network Two Coca-Cola Music Weekend, which began at midnight on the evening of Friday 19 August 1988 (overnight Saturday) with the Nelson Mandela birthday concert and ended with Thrashout! at 11.25pm on the evening of Sunday 21 August that year. Thrashout! was an extension of Radio with Pictures and described by the NZ Listener as ‘metal, hard rock, raunch and roll - call it what you like, but turn it up!’
Screening on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) and sponsored by Coca-Cola, The Network Two Coca-Cola Music Weekend was a 48-hour marathon of concerts, documentaries, films and TV specials devoted to all things music, plus RTR Choice Clips (a countdown of the six most popular music video requests via postal mail) and a special edition of Heartbeat City - “Kiwi Rock: Don’t Ya Forget It” (90 minutes of Kiwi music from the last 25 years).
But it wasn’t a one-off, though. When Network Two became what was known as Channel 2 by October 1989, The Channel 2 Coca-Cola Music Weekend ran from 10pm on the evening of Friday 24 November until 8pm on the evening of Sunday 26 November - the day in which New Zealand’s first private television network, TV3, began broadcasting.
The 46-hour music marathon was described by TVNZ as ‘New Zealand television’s first stereo broadcast’ as NICAM stereo was first made available on Channel 2 in the Auckland region in 1989. By the early 1990s, simulated stereo via Channel 2 was available in Wellington. NICAM stereo was not rolled out to the rest of the country or onto TV One (now TVNZ 1) until 1996 and for some regions, such as Southland, NICAM was not available until 2001.
On the weekend of 8-9 December 1990, Coca-Cola Rock ‘n’ Coke was shown on TV3 (now Three) and described as ‘24 hours of the biggest recent music events from around the world’. TV specials, music videos, interviews and international guests were featured and there was a short 3 National News bulletin just before 6pm on the evening of Sunday 9 December that year.
Let’s move away from the music and move on to Doctor Who.
The final week of November 1988 marked the 25th anniversary of Doctor Who and the Doctor Who Silver Jubilee Week specials were shown on Network Two all week.
These included:
- Daleks: Invasion of the Earth (a feature-length adventure featuring the first Doctor in his first battle with the Daleks, including the scene in which the Daleks cross Westminster Bridge);
- Seeds of Death (the final story featuring the second Doctor);
- The Five Doctors (a programme produced in 1983 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the series);
- the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks;
- Revelation of the Daleks (a four-part story featuring the sixth Doctor and his battle with the dreaded Daleks; it aired 5.30pm from Mon 21 Nov to Thu 24 Nov); and
- Silver Nemesis (a 90-minute adventure featuring the seventh Doctor in battle against archrivals, the Cybermen).
That’s all for now.
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Today’s TV: Wednesday 20 January 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.45am Aerobics Oz Style
11.10 Play School (Rpt)
11.35 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Whodunnit? (Rpt)
12.45 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
1.10 Alias Smith and Jones (Rpt)
2.05 Green Acres (Rpt)
2.30 John Halifax, Gentleman (Rpt)
3.25 Nature Watch (Final) (Rpt)
3.55 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
4.25 Sports Special - Cricket
Benson & Hedges World Series Cricket - NZ v Australia (preliminary round ODI; live from the Sydney Cricket Ground)
6.30 Network News
7.00 Sports Special - Cricket (Continued)
Benson & Hedges World Series Cricket - NZ v Australia (preliminary round ODI; live from the Sydney Cricket Ground)
8.00 Midweek
8.30 Sports Special - Cricket (Continued)
Benson & Hedges World Series Cricket - NZ v Australia (preliminary round ODI; live from the Sydney Cricket Ground). Includes a short news bulletin
12.15am Summer Movie: Behind Locked Doors (1948) (B&W)
1.30 Closedown
Network Two
Noon Love Connection
12.30 That’s Incredible! (Rpt)
1.15 The Brothers (Rpt)
2.10 The Wednesday Matinee: A Letter to Three Wives (1985)
4.00 The Littlest Hobo (Rpt)
4.30 Blake’s 7 (Rpt)
5.30 Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara (Part 4) (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Top of the Pops
7.00 227
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Carson’s Law
9.00 Slinger’s Day
9.30 The Hitchcock Film Season: Frenzy (1972) (Rpt)
11.35 Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
12.30am Closedown
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@Sheldon_Betteridge @Damo Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in fact, made its NZ TV debut on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 4.25pm on the afternoon of Friday 1 February 1985 - only 14 years after it was released in cinemas!
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We were sure behind the times on that. 14 years. Incredible.
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory did make an absent from NZ TV screen for 16 years between 2004 and 2020, where Three screen the movie on Easter Monday in 2020.
Today’s TV: Friday 21 January 1972
from The Press
NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 The Virginian
3.16 Not in Front of the Children (Rpt)
3.44 France Panorama (Rpt)
3.55 Origami
4.06 Sesame Street
5.03 Bolek and Lolek on Holiday
5.12 The Wind in the Willows (Part 11)
5.25 The Flaxton Boys (Rpt)
5.50 This Week in Britain
5.55 Headline News and Weather
5.58 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
6.23 Tracks Around the World (Rpt)
6.50 Sports Magazine
7.00 Network News
7.20 Weather / The South Tonight
7.31 Hogan’s Heroes
7.56 UFO
8.44 Wildfire
9.33 Newsbrief
9.35 Friday Movie: The Rover (1967)
11.08 Late News and Weather
11.14 Vendetta
Followed by Closedown
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 22 January 1980
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 Robin’s Nest (Rpt)
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 The Nature of Things
1.25 Sutherland’s Law (Rpt)
2.20 The George Hamilton IV Show
2.50 Play School (Rpt)
3.25 Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor (Rpt)
3.45 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
4.10 The Secret Garden (Part 4)
4.40 Spread Your Wings
5.05 Donny & Marie
6.00 Happy Days
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 One Day at a Time
8.00 Mastermind
8.30 Secret Army
9.30 News
9.40 Summertime Movie: Thousands Cheer (1944) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.00 Romper Room
3.30 Jana of the Jungle
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including:
4.00 Battle of the Planets
4.30 Superman
5.00 Solo One
5.30 My Three Sons (Rpt)
6.00 Headlines at Six
6.05 Project UFO
7.00 Two’s Company
7.30 All Creatures Great and Small
8.30 Target
9.30 Helen: A Woman of Today
10.35 Late News
10.50 Banacek
12.15am Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown
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