Today’s TV: Tuesday 22 March 1983
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am Play School (Rpt)
10.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
10.30 The Richard Simmons Show
10.55 Yoga with Sandra Riddle (Rpt)
11.00 11AM
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
1.00 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 You and Your Child (Rpt) A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.30 Play School (Rpt) A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.55 Wattoo Wattoo Superbird
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 After School, including (all times approx): 4.00 Fangface (Rpt)
4.20 Kia Mohio
4.25 Lippy the Lion
4.35 Video Dispatch
5.00 Andy Robson (Starting today, part 1)
5.30 Shazam! Programme ends at 6pm on TV One everywhere - except the East Coast where it ends at 5.56pm (see below)
5.56 Te Karere East Coast viewers only; TV One’s regular programming continues at 6pm
6.00 Science Express
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 Close to Home
8.00 Fair Go
8.30 Mini-Series: Masada (Part 3)
10.20 Archie Bunker’s Place
10.50 News
10.55 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
4.45 Untamed World (Rpt)
5.15 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.56 Te Karere On TV2 everywhere - except the East Coast where it broadcasts on TV One
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 CHiPs
7.30 Fame
8.30 The Tuesday Documentary - Casino
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Sweeney (Rpt)
11.00 On the Mat
11.30 Till Death Us Do Part (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
Extra: Saturday 14 April 1979
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 Top of the Morning
12.15 Saturday Matinee: The Hell with Heroes (1968)
1.55 This Week in Britain
2.00 Sport on One Includes racing from Ellerslie and USA (Oklahoma City and Darlington South Carolina), harness racing from Addington
5.00 Wings
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 ABBA in Switzerland
8.15 The 1979 Academy Awards
10.35 News
10.45 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Norliss Tapes (1973)
12.05am News and Weather
12.10 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 The Sullivans (Double episode)
1.55 Alice
2.25 Action Movie: Track of the Cat (1954)
4.05 The Flintstones
4.35 The Tarzan Season: Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) (B&W)
6.00 Weekend Edition News
6.28 Weather
6.30 Little House on the Prairie
7.30 The Love Boat
8.30 The Club Show
9.30 Weekend Edition News
9.40 Saturday Late Show (Movie): Cisco Pike (1972)
11.25 The Feather and Father Gang
12.20am Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi (Closedown)
The 51st Academy Awards took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on Monday 9 April 1979 (local time; Tue 10 Apr 1979 NZ time) and TV One (now TVNZ 1) had delayed coverage on the evening of Saturday 14 April that year at 8.15pm. Best Picture was awarded to The Deer Hunter (directed by Michael Cimino, who won the Best Director award); Jane Fonda (Coming Home) was named Best Actress; and Jon Voight (Coming Home) was named Best Actor.
Today’s TV: Monday 24 March 1997 (Free-to-air channels only)
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.00am BBC World, including: 6.00 BBC World News
6.20 On the Record
7.00 The Brothers (Rpt, G)
8.00 eTV, including: 8.00 Business Matters (G)
8.30 The End of the Western World (Part 2, final)
9.10 Living Islam (Rpt, G)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon Midday (News)
1.00 Lovejoy (Rpt, PGR)
2.05 Sisters (Starting today) (AO)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Bananas in Pyjamas (G)
3.25 William’s Wish Wellingtons (Final) (G)
3.30 Get Real (Rpt, G)
4.00 The Wonder Years (G)
4.35 Te Karere
4.50 EastEnders (G)
5.30 5.30 with Jude (Starting tonight)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.35 Heartbeat (PGR)
9.40 Tonight
10.30 Class (Starting tonight) (AO)
11.35 Ray Bradbury Theatre (PGR)
12.05am Infomercials
1.05 Blue Heelers (Rpt, PGR)
1.50 BBC World, including: 1.50 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
2.30 Time Out - Film 97
3.00 BBC World News
3.15 World Focus - The Money Programme (Rpt)
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - The Clothes Show
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Time Out - Tomorrow’s World (Continues to 6am)
TV2
6.00am Iznogoud (G)
6.30 Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol (G)
7.00 Peter Pan: The Animated Series (G)
7.30 Sailor Moon (Rpt, G)
8.00 Teen Wolf (G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (Rpt, G)
9.30 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.00 Good Morning
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 Ricki Lake (AO)
3.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
3.30 Rugrats (G)
4.00 What Now
4.30 The Mask (G)
5.00 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
6.00 Celebrity Squares (G)
6.30 Home and Away (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 Headline News Includes further updates at approx 9pm and 10pm
8.05 NZI Crimescene
8.35 The X-Files (AO)
9.40 Chicago Hope (AO)
10.40 Almost Perfect (Series return, double episode) (PGR)
11.35 Seinfeld (Rpt, PGR)
12.05am The Late Show with David Letterman
1.05 Pointman (AO)
2.00 Movie: When a Stranger Calls (1979) (AO)
3.50 Rescue 911 (aka “Rescue”)
4.40 Body and Soul (Rpt, PGR)
5.10 All in the Family (Rpt, PGR)
5.40 Kenneth Copeland (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.30am Aunties’ Alphabet (Rpt, G)
6.35 The Magic Box (Rpt, G)
7.00 Treasures Parent Time (Rpt, G)
7.05 You and Me (Rpt, G)
7.30 Darkwing Duck (Rpt, G)
8.00 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
8.30 Beetlejuice (Rpt, G)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 What’s Cooking? (Rpt, G)
10.30 The Sinbad Show (G)
11.00 Entertainment Tonight (G)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.00 Magnum PI (AO)
3.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
3.05 You and Me (G)
3.30 Thomas the Tank Engine (G)
3.35 Disney Adventure Afternoon, including: 3.35 Disney’s Quack Pack (G)
4.00 Aladdin (Rpt, G)
4.30 Gargoyles (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Lion King’s Timon and Pumbaa (G)
5.30 Family Matters (Rpt, G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 3rd Rock from the Sun (PGR)
8.00 It’s a Man’s World (“Men Behaving Badly USA”) (PGR)
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Captive (1991) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Murder One (AO)
12.05am ABC World News Tonight
12.35 Infomercials
1.35 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.20 General Hospital (PGR)
3.10 That Comedy Show (Rpt, PGR)
3.35 Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)
Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, CTV, Southern
6.00am BBC World News CTV: Welcome to Canterbury (6am-3pm; including Marketplace at 11am)
6.20 On the Record
7.00 BBC World News
7.20 Window on Europe
8.00 BBC World Headlines
8.05 World Focus - Great Journeys
9.00 BBC World News COAST TO COAST: Time Out - Film 97
9.30 Time Out - Tomorrow’s World COAST TO COAST: Pacific Highway
10.00 Home Shopping
11.30 Marketplace
Noon Midday (News) Live simulcast with TV One
1.00 BBC Newsroom
4.00 Time Out - Top Gear CTV: Happy Days
4.30 Happy Days CTV: Marketplace (4.30-5.30pm)
5.00 Marketplace
5.30 Local News ATV: ATV News
COAST TO COAST: Coast to Coast News
CAPITAL CITY: Capital Nightly News
CTV: CTV News
SOUTHERN: Southern News
6.00 One Network News Live simulcast with TV One
7.00 BBC News Day CTV: CTV News
SOUTHERN: Southern News
7.30 Dad’s Army (Double episode)
8.40 The Monday Documentary - The Tourist (Part 3)
9.40 A Bit of a Do
10.40 Marketplace
11.10 Holmes
11.40 BBC World News CTV: Holmes, followed by Welcome to Canterbury (12.10am until 6am)
12.00am BBC World Headlines
12.05 World Focus - Correspondent
1.00 BBC World News
1.15 World Business Report
1.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
2.30 Time Out - Film 97
3.00 BBC World News
3.15 World Focus - The Money Programme
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - The Clothes Show
5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Time Out - Tomorrow’s World (Continues to 6am)
@OnAir That’s correct. Richard Wilkins (from Australia’s Channel Nine) was brought back to NZ to host Celebrity Squares and various local celebrities, including Polly Gillespie, alternated in the centre square.
In fact, Celebrity Squares was recorded in front of a live audience at the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington and there was another game show called Off the Planet (from Grundy Television), which was also recorded at Avalon. Hosted by Nick Eynon (now Nick Piper) and his alien sidekick Razzo, Off the Planet was a new concept in five-nights-a-week game shows in which two teams of two family members and a celebrity competed against other to win prizes.
Both Celebrity Squares (TVNZ) and Off the Planet (TV3 [now Three]) didn’t last long due to poor ratings… I think.
Hollywood Squares, starring Whoopi Goldberg with Tom Bergeron as host, was shown on TV3 from the summer of 1999/2000 until 2001. It was initially shown at 7pm (following 3 News, now known as Newshub) before moving to the earlier timeslot of 5pm as a popular lead-in to Judge Judy (at 5.30pm).
@OnAir About 70 episodes of Off the Planet were produced and TV3 (now Three) initially aired it at 7pm, moving reruns of Home Improvement to 5.30pm as a lead-in to the news. Within a few weeks, due to poor ratings and strong competition from Holmes on TV One (now TVNZ 1) and Shortland Street on TV2 (now TVNZ 2), the show was moved to 5.30pm before it had been axed by mid-1997.
Today’s TV: Sunday 25 March 1984
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.50 Tomorrow’s World
1.00 Agreport
1.15 Dig This (Rpt)
1.30 The Renovators
2.00 Sunday Afternoon Movie: Gigi (1958)
3.50 The Return of Powder Hound
4.10 Woolly Valley (Rpt)
4.15 Monkey
5.00 Family Affair (Part 2)
5.30 Children Around the World (Rpt)
5.50 Everyman: Daddy King (Rpt)
6.30 News
6.45 Koha
7.00 New Zealand Pipers
7.45 Common Ground (Part 4, final)
8.00 To the Manor Born (Part 4) (Rpt)
8.30 The Barchester Chornicles (Part 5)
9.20 News
9.30 Sunday
10.15 Play of the Week - To the Camp and Back
11.05 News
11.10 Closedown
TV2
11.00am Church Service
Noon Sunday Matinee: The Ladykillers (1956)
1.25 Bewitched (Rpt)
1.50 Opus
2.50 Civilisation (Part 12) (Rpt)
3.40 The Mill on the Floss (Part 4, final) (Rpt)
4.35 Herbal Medicine: Fact or Fiction?
5.05 Jazz Seen
5.55 News
6.00 The Wonderful World of Disney - Donald and Jose Ole
6.45 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Family Ties
7.25 Sunday Movie: The Archer - Fugitive from the Empire (1981)
9.00 Roll Over Beethoven (Part 3)
9.25 Radio with Pictures
10.10 The Sunday Horrors: X - The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963)
11.25 Closedown
Today’s TV: Saturday 26 March 1994
from the NZ Listener
TV One
8.00am eTV, including: 8.00 Marketing (Rpt, G)
8.30 Business Matters (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Dream Machine (Rpt, G)
9.50 Palmers Garden Show (Rpt, G)
10.55 Beyond 2000 (Final) (Rpt, G)
Noon Gillette World Sport Special
12.30 CBS Evening News
1.00 One World of Sport - Softball NZ v Netherlands - live from Rosedale Park, Avondale
2.30 One World of Sport - Netball Caltex Cup - round one; live from Papatoetoe Sports Stadium
4.00 One World of Sport - Equestrian Bell Tea Horse of the Year Show - from Karaka
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Country Calendar (G)
7.00 Are You Being Served? (Rpt, PGR)
7.35 The House of Eliott (G)
8.45 The Best of British - Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (PGR)
10.55 One World of Sport - Rugby: NZ’s Big Game Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sevens - day one; highlights
12.25am Saturday Film Club: A Shock to the System (1990) (PGR)
2.00 Closedown
Channel 2
6.05am Yogi’s Treasure Hunt (Rpt, G)
6.30 Mighty Max (G)
7.00 Tiny Toon Adventures (Rpt, G)
7.25 Eek! The Cat
8.00 What Now Includes Taz-Mania (at 8.10am), Sonic the Hedgehog (at 9am) and Batman: The Animated Series (at 10am)
11.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown
Noon A Different World (G)
12.30 Heart of Courage (G)
1.00 The Saturday Cinema: Porridge (1979) (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 Hollywood Stuntbusters (G)
3.30 Night Court (PGR)
4.00 Growing Pains (G)
4.30 Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (G)
5.00 Life Goes On (G)
6.00 The Ren & Stimpy Show (Rpt, G)
6.30 The Mad, Mad World of Television
7.30 Baywatch (PGR)
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Baywatch (Continued)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Principal (1987) (AO)
10.45 American Gladiators (G)
11.45 Lion Red Aussie League on 2 Winfield Cup 1994 - highlights
12.45am The Saturday Late Movie: Crimes of Passion (1984) (Rpt, AO)
2.30 Movie: Dangerous Orphans (1985) (Rpt, AO)
4.05 Rescue 911 (“Rescue 111”) (Rpt, AO)
5.05 Pepsi RTR Countdown (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.30am The New Adventures of Skippy (G)
7.00 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
7.30 Disney Adventures, including: 7.30 The Little Mermaid (G)
8.00 Goof Troop (Double episode) (G)
9.00 Darkwing Duck (G)
9.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Double episode) (G)
10.30 Guys Next Door (G)
11.00 Hull High (PGR)
Noon Hard Time on Planet Earth (PGR)
1.00 Bony (PGR)
2.00 Movie Matinee: Captain Power - The Legend Begins (1989) (PGR)
4.00 The Magical World of Disney (Movie): 14 Going on 30 (1988) (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.45 Family Night at the Movies: The Parent Trap (1961) (G)
10.25 Late Movie: Young Charlie Chaplin (G)
1.45am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.00am Sky Sport - Cricket South Africa v Australia - third test, day one; delayed coverage
8.00 Rugby League UK Rugby League - Hull KR v Leigh
10.05 Top Rank Boxing
11.35 Tennis ATP Tour highlights
12.05pm Pro-Box
1.30 Motorsport Twelve Hours of Sebring
3.00 Basketball NBA - New York v Chicago
4.30 College Basketball
4.55 Rugby League Winfield Cup 1994 - live
6.50 Snowboarding Pro Tour
7.30 Football World Cup Hall of Fame
8.00 Cricket South Africa v Australia - third test, day one; highlights
8.30 Gymnastics Peachtree Classic
9.30 Golf Volvo Tour - Turespana Open de Baleares
10.30 Rugby League UK Rugby League - Hull KR v Leigh; replay
12.00am ESPN Direct - Indoor Football NPSL Wildcard Game
2.00 Sky Sport - European Football Weekly Highlights
2.55 Football English Premier League 1993/94 (The Big Match) - live
5.00 Rugby League (Continues to 6.30am) Winfield Cup 1994 - full replay
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am World News
7.00 BBC News
7.30 World News
8.00 International Hour
9.00 World News
9.45 World Sport
10.00 World Business Today Update
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.00 The World Today
Noon Moneyline
12.30 Crossfire
1.00 Prime News
2.00 Larry King Live
3.00 World News
4.30 Showbiz Today
5.00 Headline News
5.30 Style
6.00 Science & Technology Week
6.30 Moneyline
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Earth Matters
8.00 World Business This Week
8.30 Diplomatic License
9.00 Inside Business
9.30 Headline News
10.00 Larry King
11.00 Headline News
11.30 International Correspondents
12.00am Travel Guide
12.30 Headline News
1.00 The Big Story
1.30 Real News for Kids
2.00 Healthworks
2.30 Moneyweek
3.00 Science & Technology Week
3.30 Style
4.00 Showbiz This Week
4.30 Diplomatic License
5.00 Earth Matters
5.30 Evans & Novak (Continues to 6am)
Sky Movies (HBO)
7.00am Steel Riders (G)
8.30 Head (1968) (GY)
10.00 Defending Your Life (1991) (GY)
Noon Nostalgia at Noon - From Here to Eternity (1953) (B&W) (G)
2.00 Jessica Lange: It’s Only Make Believe (GA)
3.00 Betty’s Bunch (G)
5.00 White Fang (1993) (G)
6.00 HBO Video Jukebox Special - Guns N’ Roses
7.00 Black Widow (1986) (GA)
8.40 Jaffas Showtime 1994
9.00 Cadbury Premiere Gold: For the Boys (1991) (GA)
11.20 Ambition (1991) (RP16)
12.55am Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) (R16)
2.30 Rush (1991) (R18)
4.30 Everybody’s Fine (1990) (GA) (Continues to 6.30am)
Today’s TV: Sunday 27 March 1977
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.00am Open Mind
Noon News
12.05 Crossroads
12.30 The Big Match
1.15 Sunday Matinee: Call Me Bwana (1963) (Rpt)
2.50 Survival
3.15 The Harry Secombe Show (Rpt)
4.00 Silents Please (B&W)
4.25 Nanny and the Professor (Rpt)
5.10 Spot On
5.40 The Wonderful World of Disney - Salty the Hijacked Harbour Seal
6.30 News
6.45 Sunday’s World
7.00 Show of the Week - The John Denver Show
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 When the Boat Comes In (Part 6)
8.50 News
9.00 Seven Days
9.30 Danger, Jesus Is Still Alive (Final)
9.35 Microbes and Men (Part 4)
10.25 Flick Flack
10.50 News and Weather
10.55 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm Action on Sunday (Double feature), including: 1.00 Overland Stage Raiders (1938) (B&W)
1.50 Santa Few Stampede (1938) (B&W)
2.45 Sportsworld Includes “Track Review” and cricket (Gillette Cup knockout final)
4.40 On the Mat
5.10 The High Chaparral
6.00 Weekend Edition (News)
6.10 Landscape
6.35 Dr Who - The Monster of Peladon (Part 2)
7.00 Stars on Sunday
7.30 Family
8.20 Sunday Feature: Eleanor and Franklin (Part 2, final)
10.00 Weekend Edition (News)
10.10 Till Death Do Us Part
10.40 The Ten Commandments (Part 4)
Followed by Closedown
TV One
10.00am Sports Extra Includes racing review (Te Aroha) and preview (Ellerslie)
10.45 Science Report
11.00 Of Course You Can Do It
11.30 Dig This
11.50 This Week in Britain
11.55 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.10 Crossroads
12.30 Saturday Matinee: The Texas Rangers (1951) (B&W)
1.45 Sport on One Includes athletics (NZ Amateur Athletic Championships from Hamilton) and racing from Ellerslie
5.00 Basil Brush (Rpt)
5.30 Born Free
6.30 News Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Top Town (Final) Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
8.00 The Cuckoo Waltz
8.30 News
8.40 Saturday Night at the Movies: Mogambo (1953)
10.15 Saturday Night at the Movies: Hotel Paradiso (1966)
11.55 News and Weather
12.00am Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm Saturday Matinee: The Beachcomber (1955)
2.20 Dinah!
3.05 Here’s Lucy
3.35 The Good Life
4.05 The New Adventures of Black Beauty
4.35 Thunderbirds (Rpt)
5.30 Superstars
6.00 Weekend Edition (News)
6.15 Sport in Action
7.00 Emergency (Rpt)
7.55 Comedy Movie: Fitzwilly (1967)
9.55 Executive Suite
10.50 Weekend Edition (News)
11.00 Saturday Late Show (Movie): The Mind of Mr Soames (1970)
Followed by Closedown
This long-running travelling TV game show pitted towns against each other in a series of physical challenges. Leveraging nostalgia for a fast-fading time when NZ’s population (and identity) resided in rural hub towns, Top Town was Kiwi light-entertainment gold.
The 1977 final, introduced by (Sir) Howard Morrison and radio host Paddy O’Donnell, was broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 7pm on the evening of Saturday 5 March that year. It was recorded in front of a large crowd at Okara Park, Whangarei, as they watched Timaru, Greymouth, Waihi and Woodville compete for civic bragging rights in the sun. Keep an eye out for short shorts, jockettes, greasy poles, ‘balloon baloney’, and beautiful scorer Theresa.
You can watch the 1977 Top Town final via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Today’s TV: Saturday 28 March 1987
from the NZ Listener
TV One
7.00am The Wuzzles (Rpt)
7.30 The Muppet Babies
8.00 Porky Pig (Rpt)
8.25 Family Classics (Final)
8.55 CHiPs (Final) (Rpt)
9.50 Sport on One Includes cricket (NZ v West Indies - fourth ODI; live from Lancaster Park, Christchurch) and racing from Awapuni
6.00pm News Review
6.30 Network News
7.00 Three Up, Two Down
7.35 Tales of the Unexpected
8.00 Whicker’s World: Living with Uncle Sam
9.00 The Mistress
9.35 Midevening News
9.45 Blott on the Landscape (Part 5)
10.45 Film International: A Good Woman (1986) A Chinese film with English subtitles
12.25am Closedown
TV2
11.00am The Christians (Rpt)
11.50 Science International
Noon Saturday Matinee: The Silent Lovers (1980)
1.40 Solid Gold
2.25 Seven Brides for Seven Sisters (Rpt)
3.10 The People’s Court
3.35 The Making of “Stand by Me”
4.05 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
5.00 Hester Guy Cooks (Starting tonight)
5.30 Taxi (Rpt)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 ALF
7.00 L&P Top Town
7.30 It’s in the Bag
8.00 MacGyver
9.00 Saturday Night at the Movies: Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
10.55 Entertainment This Week
11.55 Midnight Special: The Kids Are Alright (1979)
1.25am Closedown
Today’s TV: Thursday 29 March 1979
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.20 Crown Court
2.55 Play School
3.20 Lippy the Lion (Rpt)
3.25 Jabberjaw (Final)
3.45 Thunder
4.10 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4.35 Lorne Greene’s Last of the Wild
5.00 Lancer (Rpt)
6.00 Sha Na Na
6.30 News Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8.00 Fair Go
8.30 Kaz
9.30 News
9.45 Nightingale’s Boys (Part 7, final)
10.45 The Wackers
11.15 News and Weather
11.20 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including: 3.00 Romper Room
3.30 Clutch Cargo (Rpt)
3.35 Rainbow
3.50 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including: 4.00 The Flintstones (Rpt)
4.30 The Monroes (Rpt)
5.30 My Three Sons (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Welcome Back Kotter
7.00 The Tom O’Connor Show
7.30 The Persuaders!
8.30 Larry Grayson Hour of Stars
9.30 Eye Witness
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Rugby NZ v Australian Barbarians - highlights
11.45 Pacific Viewpoint (Rpt)
12.00am Goodnight Kiwi (Closedown)
Today’s TV: Saturday 30 March 1991
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Sob Sisters (Part 4)
12.30 Mini-Series: Jesus of Nazareth (Part 2) (Rpt, G)
2.10 Easter Dream (Rpt)
2.30 Beyond 2000 (Rpt)
3.30 One World of Sport - Easter Racing Special 1991 Easter Cup / NZ Derby - live from Addington
Easter Handicap - live from Ellerslie
4.35 Design Classics (Rpt)
5.00 Crufts 1991: Supreme Champion
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Country Calendar (G)
7.00 The Grass Is Greener (Starting tonight, part 1) Sam Neill - click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
7.30 All Creatures Great and Small (G)
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: The Formula (1980) (AO)
10.45 The Film Club: Once Upon a Time in America (1984, part 1) (AO)
12.55am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Breakfast Club, including: 6.35 Chucklewood Easter (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Raccoons
7.30 The Chipmunks (Rpt, G)
8.00 What Now
10.00 Pepsi RTR Sounz!
11.00 Out of This World (G)
11.30 The Munsters Today (G)
Noon The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt)
12.30 Love Connection (G)
1.00 National Geographic Explorer (G)
2.00 Saturday Cinema: Easter Parade (1948) (Rpt, G)
3.50 The Little Rascals (B&W)
4.00 Supergran (Part 12) (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Hogan Family
5.00 A Country Practice
6.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown
6.30 Full House (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
7.30 Doogie Howser, MD (G)
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 New Zealand’s Funniest Home Videos
8.30 The Young Riders
9.30 Cops (AO)
10.00 Mission: Impossible (Rpt, PGR)
11.05 WWF Royal Rumble 1991
2.00am Closedown
TV3
7.00am EBS (G), including: 7.00 The Wuzzles
7.45 The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
8.15 Annabel’s Kitchen
8.30 Punky Brewster
9.00 Superman
9.20 TVFM (Vid-Phone Music Requests, Write-in Music Requests, Top 5 Shakedowns)
11.00 Coca-Cola Shakedown (G)
Noon Supercarrier (Final) (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 3 Special - 1991 Academy Awards
5.00 3 Special - The Innocent of Hollywood
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Easter Movie Special: The King and I (1956) (Rpt)
9.30 3 Sport - Basketball Rheineck Basketball League 1991 - Auckland Cannons v Nelson Giants; full delayed coverage from the ASB Stadium, Auckland
11.00 Late Movie: Hunk (1987) (Rpt, AO)
1.00am Closedown
Sky Sport
11.50am Racing Live from Ellerslie; first race at 11.55am
Noon Tennis Davis Cup (USA v Mexico) - round one; live Includes live racing from Ellerslie at 12.30, 1.05, 1.40, 2.20, 2.55, 3.30, 4.05 and 4.40pm
5.00 Rugby League Winfield Cup 1991 - live
6.45 Golf LPGA: Nabisco Dinah Shore - round two
7.30 Basketball Rheineck Basketball League 1991 - Auckland Cannons v Nelson Giants; live from the ASB Stadium, Auckland
9.30 Golf The Players’ Championship - round two
11.30 Tennis ATP Tour highlights
12.15am Closedown
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, plus BBC News at 7am & 7pm
Sky Movies
Noon Troop Beverly Hills (1989) (GY)
2.00 Newsfront (1978) (GY)
4.00 That Sinking Feeling (1979) (GY)
6.00 A Room with a View (1985) (GA)
8.00 Beetlejuice (1988) (GY) EASTER ROCK ‘N’ ROLL MARATHON
9.30 Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (GA)
11.00 U2 Rattle and Hum (1987) (GY)
12.40am Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll (1987) (GY)
2.40 Cream’s Farewell Concert (G)
3.30 Stop Making Sense (1984) (G)
5.00 Tommy (1975) (R16) (Continues to 7am)
The Grass Is Greener, a six-part documentary series on New Zealanders living in Australia at the time, premiered on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 7pm on the evening of Saturday 30 March 1991.
Director (Dame) Jane Campion, actor (Sir) Sam Neill, comedian/writer John Clarke, Dragon’s Marc and Todd Hunter, promoter/agent Harry M Miller, and current affairs anchor Derryn Hinch were all profiled throughout the series.
The Grass Is Greener was produced by Judy Rymer (who directed three episodes) and cameraman Bayly Watson (Carmen), who died soon after working on it.
You can watch the first episode, focusing on Sam Neill, via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Meanwhile, Sky Sport had live racing from Ellerslie (including the Easter Handicap) during the Davis Cup tennis, and Sky Movies took us through the night to the early hours of Easter Sunday with the Easter Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
Today’s TV: Monday 31 March 1980
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.35am Play School
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.40 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 Doc
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Fun Factory, including: 2.25 Sesame Street
3.25 Sooty (Rpt)
3.50 Atom Ant (Rpt)
4.10 Jig-Saw (Rpt)
4.35 The Canal Children (Starting today, part 1)
5.00 Project UFO
6.00 Detective School
6.30 News
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Regional News (Starting tonight) Auckland: Top Half
Wellington: Today Tonight
Christchurch: The Mainland Touch
Dunedin: 7.30 South
8.00 M-A-S-H
8.30 Minder
9.30 Soap
10.00 Dallas
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Send in the Girls (Part 7, final)
3.20 Matinee Theatre: Kathy Karuks Is a Grizzly Bear
4.05 Make Mine Music (Rpt)
4.55 Royal Heritage (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 Dr Who - Underworld (Part 3)
6.25 The Week with Two
6.30 A Place in History
7.00 Contact - Not So Long Ago (Part 2)
7.30 Telford’s Change (Part 7)
8.30 Kaleidoscope
10.00 News at Ten
10.20 World Cinema: Two Women (1960) (B&W)
12.00am Closedown
On the evening of Monday 31 March 1980, the newly formed TVNZ brought back the four regional news magazine programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and 7.30 South (Dunedin).
Each regional magazine offered a mix of the day’s news, current affairs and features, drawing on TVNZ’s newsgathering resources in the four main centres.
To me, the regional magazines were inspired by the NZBC’s Town and Around, which covered everything from current affairs to visiting celebrities, slapstick and stunts during the 1960s. Town and Around was replaced in 1970 by This Day in Auckland, Newsview in Wellington and The South Tonight in Christchurch and Dunedin. By 1974, Auckland’s This Day was renamed Look North, and by 1975 the regional magazines were cut as the NZBC ceased to exist.
TV One’s (now TVNZ 1) main evening news bulletin, at 6.30pm, included 10 minutes of regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. On Sundays, a regional current affairs programme called Sunday’s World was shown at 6.45pm (right after the 6.30pm news) and ran for 15 minutes.
When TV2 South Pacific Television (now TVNZ 2) came along, its 7pm news bulletin included 20 minutes of regional news from Auckland and Christchurch. Within months of launch, the Waikato/Bay of Plenty and Wellington joined in.
