NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Harness Racing Live from Addington
2.45 Nature’s Patterns (Rpt)
3.05 Harness Racing Live from Addington
3.20 The Style of Champions (Rpt)
3.40 Harness Racing Live from Addington
4.14 The Beverly Hillbillies
4.42 Bonanza
5.35 HR Pufnstuf
5.59 Headline News and Weather
6.02 Sports Magazine (Rpt)
6.13 Happen Inn
7.00 Network News
7.22 Weather and Regional News
7.32 What’s My Line?
7.58 Z Cars
8.52 Newsbrief
8.54 Saturday Movie: A Very Special Favour (1965)
10.45 The Science Report
10.59 Late News and Weather
11.05 The Carol Burnett Show
Followed by Closedown
Today’s TV: Monday 3 April 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt)
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Rainbow (Rpt)
11.15 The Smurfs (Rpt)
11.40 Towser (Starting today)
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 Ever Decreasing Circles (Rpt)
2.45 Coronation Street (Double episode) (Rpt)
3.40 Albion Market
4.10 Terry and June
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six New half hour format
6.30 Holmes (Starting tonight) Includes the Dennis Conner interview - click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
7.00 Our World - Carna the Otter
8.00 Floodtide (Starting tonight)
9.00 French and Saunders
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 Falcon Crest
10.55 Dynasty
11.55 Closedown
Network Two
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 The Young and the Restless
Noon Love Connection
12.25 The Duck Factory (Starting today)
12.55 The Love Boat (Rpt)
1.50 Three’s Company (Rpt)
2.15 After 2, including (all times approx): 2.16 Play School
2.45 Mother Goose Stories
2.55 Care Bears (Rpt)
3.20 Storybook Classics (Starting today)
3.45 Live!, including (all times approx): 3.50 Danger Mouse
4.05 A Little Princess (Starting today, part 1)
4.40 RTR Megamix
5.15 Throb (Starting today)
5.45 Newsbreak and Regional Programmes Auckland: Top Half
Wellington: Today Tonight
Christchurch: The Mainland Touch
Dunedin: The South Tonight (YouTube link below)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Starting tonight) (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours (New timeslot)
7.00 Sale of the Century (Series premiere) Click the YouTube link below to watch - I apologise for the poor picture and sound quality
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Family Ties
8.30 China Beach
9.30 The Twilight Zone (Series premiere)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Entertainment This Week
11.30 Downtown (Starting tonight) (Rpt)
12.30am Closedown
As TVNZ introduced its new season in the first week of April 1989, things started to change on the evening of Monday 3 April that year.
On TV One (now TVNZ 1), the Network News at Six was reduced in duration from a full hour to 30 minutes. The 6pm bulletin was followed at 6.30pm by TVNZ’s new nightly current affairs programme, Holmes, which promised a mix of interviews and reportage, and light and serious subjects. Its first edition included an infamous interview with American yachtsman Dennis Conner, who was asked by (Sir) Paul Holmes to apologise for cheating in the America’s Cup. (That interview is available to watch via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.)
To make way for the new Holmes programme, the regional news programmes (Top Half in Auckland, Today Tonight in Wellington, The Mainland Touch in Christchurch and The South Tonight in Dunedin) were transferred to 5.45pm on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) and preceded by the early evening Newsbreak. (The 3 April 1989 edition of The South Tonight is available to watch via YouTube by clicking its link above - special thanks to YouTube channel DNTV2.)
And following Neighbours at the new time of 6.30pm, our own version of the blockbuster Australian game show Sale of the Century hit the airwaves at 7pm and screened five nights a week, Monday to Friday, on Two. Hosts Steve Parr and Judith Kirk (now Jude Dobson) oversaw the questions, the competition and the largesse. (The first episode of Sale of the Century is available to watch via YouTube by clicking its link above, although I want to apologise to you all for the quality of the picture and sound.)
This weekend’s TV: 4-6 April 1986
from the NZ Listener
FRIDAY 4 April 1986 TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.50 Tai Chi (Rpt)
11.00 Crossroads
11.25 Play School (Rpt)
11.50 You and Your Child (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) A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.40 Play School (Rpt) A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.05 Rainbow
3.20 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
3.45 After School, including: 3.46 The Smurfs
4.15 Children Helping Children: More Like Us
4.35 Movie for After School: Cartoon Carousel (1980) (Rpt)
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 EastEnders (Double episode)
8.40 Kaleidoscope (Series return)
9.35 Barney Miller (Rpt)
10.05 Fourth Estate
10.20 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Part 8) (Rpt)
11.20 Max Headroom
11.50 News
11.55 12 O’Clock Rock - INXS: Rocking the Royals
12.55am 1986 British Record Industry Awards
2.00 Video Music
3.00 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
3.25 Naked City (B&W) (Rpt)
4.15 Early Morning Movie: The Fabulous Texan (1947) (B&W) (Continues to 6am)
TV2
Noon Petticoat Junction (B&W)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.05 Miller’s Court
2.30 Dynasty (Rpt)
3.25 Bewitched (Rpt)
3.55 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: Black Sunday (1977) (Rpt)
12.35am Closedown
SATURDAY 5 April 1986 TV One
6.00am Bonanza (Rpt)
6.55 Paddington Bear (Rpt)
7.00 Secret Squirrel (Rpt)
7.25 Fraggle Rock (Final) (Rpt)
8.00 What Now (Series return)
10.00 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 The Munsters (B&W) (Rpt)
11.00 The Man from UNCLE (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: The Iroquois Trail (1950) (B&W)
1.30 Sport on One Includes racing from Ellerslie (including the $150,000 WFA TVNZ Stakes), netball (Swiss Maid League - Carmel v Wellington), rugby (NSW Rugby Union International Sevens Tournament) and golf (1985 US Open Ladies’ Championship - day three)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 MacGyver (Series premiere)
8.30 McPhail and Gadsby (Series return)
9.00 The Saturday Premiere Movie: Operation Julie (1985)
12.00am News
12.05 Entertainment This Week
1.00 Bogart (Late Movie): The Big Shot (1942) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.25 Doctor at Large (Rpt)
2.50 Target (Rpt)
3.45 Night Gallery
4.35 Early Morning Movie: Pawnee (1957) (Continues to 6am)
TV2
11.00am The Arabs (Part 8) (Rpt)
Noon Our World - Birds of a Feather (Rpt)
12.55 Fame (Rpt)
1.45 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Rose of Washington Square (1939) (B&W) (Rpt)
3.15 The Children’s Story
3.45 The People’s Court
4.10 More Real People
4.35 Delia Smith’s Cookery Course (Part 9)
5.00 Emmerdale Farm (Double episode)
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Metal Mickey
7.00 The Long Watch: 50 Years of Radar
7.30 Foreign Correspondent
8.30 Saturday Playhouse - The Gay Lord Quex
10.30 News
10.45 World Cinema: Elusive Summer (1984) A Yugoslav film with English subtitles
12.10am Closedown
SUNDAY 6 April 1986 TV One
6.00am Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
6.45 Bugs Bunny and Friends
6.55 The Little Dog Goes Fishing
7.00 Sesame Street (Rpt)
8.00 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (Rpt)
8.20 Warner Bros Cartoons
8.30 Praise Be (Series premiere)
9.00 Some Mothers Do Ave ‘Em (Rpt)
9.30 Big League Soccer
10.20 British Football Results 1985/86
10.30 Weekend (Series return)
Noon Agreport
12.15 Dig This (Rpt)
12.30 Giant Blacks and Great Whites (Part 4, final)
12.55 Strategy for Salvation
1.25 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
2.10 Sunday Afternoon Movie: The Fountainhead (1949) (B&W) (Rpt)
4.00 Opus
4.45 Images (Rpt)
4.55 A Child of Taranaki (Rpt)
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Day One
6.30 News
6.45 Koha (Series return)
7.00 Entertainment Showcase - My Kind of Music (Part 3)
7.45 Country Calendar (Series return)
8.00 Ever Decreasing Circles (Series premiere)
8.30 Palace of Dreams (Starting tonight, part 1)
9.20 News
9.30 Sunday
10.00 Play of the Week - A Mother Like Him
10.50 News
10.55 Danger Man (B&W) (Rpt)
11.20 Closedown
TV2
11.00am Family Hour Festival (Rpt)
11.45 Science International
11.50 Mr Magoo
Noon Sunday Matinee: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
1.35 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
2.00 Jazz Seen - The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
2.50 I Am Joe’s Lung
3.15 Woolly Valley (Series return)
3.25 The Wind in the Willows
3.45 Supergran
4.10 Sunday Grandstand Includes horse racing (Grand Nation), athletics (World Cross-Country Championships), triathlon (1986 DB Ironman Triathlon Championship) and land yachting (1986 International Land Yachting Championship)
5.55 News
6.00 The Wonderful World of Disney - Donald Duck Quacks Up (Final) (Rpt)
6.45 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Diff’rent Strokes
7.25 Sunday Movie: The Boy Who Drank Too Much (1980)
9.00 Viewfinder (Series return)
9.30 Radio with Pictures
10.15 The Sunday Horrors: Doomwatch (1972)
11.50 Closedown
@Damo TV One (now TVNZ 1) was due to begin 24-hour programme transmission on the first weekend of April 1986, but the plans were cancelled by TVNZ in the last minute. However, extended weekday hours - from 9am until the new closedown time of around midnight - were unaffected.
Today’s TV: Tuesday 6 April 1976
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
12.25 Lunchbox
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Today at One
1.30 Days of Our Lives
1.50 Owen Marshall: Counsellor at Law
2.45 Play School
3.15 The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz
3.40 Pick a Letter (B&W) (Rpt)
3.45 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
4.05 The Up and Down, In and Out, Round About Man
4.15 The Lone Ranger (B&W)
4.40 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
5.05 Bewitched (Rpt)
5.35 Cowboy in Africa (Rpt)
6.30 News Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
8.30 Moynihan (Series premiere)
9.30 Tonight
10.00 The Sweeney
11.00 News and Weather
11.05 Closedown
TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Marked Personal
1.25 Dinah!
2.15 Search for Tomorrow
2.35 Bridget Loves Bernie (Rpt)
3.05 Rainbow
3.25 Romper Room
4.00 The Merrie Melodies Show
4.20 The Adventures of Gulliver (Rpt)
4.40 The Young Rebels (Rpt)
5.35 The Flintstones (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Batman
6.55 Police Five
7.00 Cash and Company
8.00 A Going Concern
8.30 Caribe
9.30 Sez Les
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 On the Mat
11.00 Twelve O’clock High (B&W)
11.55 (approx) Closedown
Moynihan, a seven-part drama series based on the activities of a New Zealand trade union troubleshooter, made its debut on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 6 April 1976. It revolved around the professional, political and domestic life of Leo Moynihan, the secretary of the Central Carpenters’ Union, and always the man in the middle, according to the NZ Listener.
The first NZ-Australia co-production (between TV One and the ABC) was devised by union organiser Earle Spencer and Jane Galletly (a rare credit in the then-male dominated industry).
Moynihan was named Best Drama and Ian Mune (who played the title character and shared with his performance in Winners & Losers), Best Actor, at the 1977 Feltex Television Awards.
Episode two, entitled “You Can’t Win ‘Em All” (first aired 13 April 1976), is available to watch via NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.
Extra: Wednesday 7 April 1982
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 You and Your Child
11.05 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.30 Take Kerr (Rpt)
11.35 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
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 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 Chic Chat
3.30 After School, including (all times approx): 3.30 Kid Power
3.50 Pinocchio
4.00 Once Upon a Story
4.10 Take Hart (Rpt)
4.30 Kia Kite, Kia Rongo, Kia Mohio
4.35 Flintstone Frolics
4.55 Sign Time
5.00 Wildtrack (Rpt)
5.30 Shazam! (Series premiere)
6.00 King of the Castle (Final)
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
8.00 Close Up
9.00 Hill Street Blues
10.00 Prisoner (Rpt) A repeat screening of the first episode
10.50 News
10.55 Closedown
TV2
2.15pm State Opening of Parliament The official opening of the first session of the 40th Parliament, live from Wellington
3.10 Prisoner in Concert
4.05 The Love Boat (Rpt)
5.00 Dusty’s Trail (Rpt)
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News
6.10 Prawns Galore
6.30 The Greatest American Hero
7.30 Ray Woolf
8.00 The Sullivans (Double episode)
9.00 Eye Witness News
9.45 Movie for Television: The Law of the Land (1976)
11.30 United States - Married
11.55 Closedown
Shazam!, a magazine-style music and pop culture show from TVNZ, made its debut on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 5.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 7 April 1972. It featured a blend of music videos, local talent, movie previews, music news, requests and interviews, as well as the introduction of Phillip Schofield, who was 19 at the time and went on to become the longest-serving face of British television through the likes of CBBC (Children’s BBC), Going Live!, The Cube, This Morning and many more.
@TelevisionAU Meanwhile, Prisoner was first shown in an afternoon timeslot, i.e. 2.30pm, on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) a year earlier and its first episode was repeated at 10pm that night on TV One.
And speaking of Prisoner, a one-off special called Prisoner in Concert was broadcast on TV2 at 3.10pm that afternoon. First aired in Australia in March 1981, the special was recorded in front of an audience at the real Pentridge Prison and had some of the cast (Betty Bobbitt, Jane Clifton, Sheila Florance, Val Lehman, Colette Mann, Gerard Maguire and Patsy King) doing sketches and numbers.
Members of the audience were real inmates and their families and the cast (as mentioned above) were chosen due to their work in live theatre, however Sheila Florance’s age meant that she was removed from the dance numbers.
Today’s TV: Wednesday 8 April 1987
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.00am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kohanga Reo
11.30 Creepy Crawlies
11.40 Rainbow
Noon Midday News
12.10 The Young and the Restless
1.05 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Are You Being Served? (Rpt)
2.30 Knots Landing
3.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
4.00 Love Songs
4.20 Emmerdale Farm
4.50 Punky Brewster
5.15 The Young Doctors
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H (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 Our World - Mum, How Do I Spell Gorbatrof? (Final)
8.30 This Is Your Life
9.15 Fighting Bag (Part 2)
10.15 CATS Eyes
11.15 Secret Army (Rpt)
12.15am Closedown
TV2
Noon Wednesday Matinee: To All My Friends on Shore (1971) (Rpt)
1.20 The Vanishing Partridge
1.35 I Didn’t Know You Cared (Rpt)
2.05 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.30 Play School
2.55 Alphabet Zoo
3.05 The World’s Most Beautiful Tales (Final)
3.15 The Enchanted Pencil
3.25 After School Includes The Littles, The Littlest Hobo (Rpt) and The Flintstones (Rpt)
4.55 Butterfly Island (Series return)
5.25 Dr Who - The Android Invasion (Part 4) (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 A Country Practice
7.30 Wednesday Feature: The Swarm (1978)
9.50 The Kenny Everett Television Show
10.00 Eye Witness Current affairs, “Worldwatch” and a news update
11.00 Soap (Rpt)
11.30 Barney Miller (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
Today’s TV: Wednesday 9 April 1997 (Free-to-air channels only)
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.00am BBC World, including: 6.00 The World Today (Continued)
6.30 HARDtalk
6.45 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 The Brothers (Rpt, G)
8.00 eTV, including: 8.00 Child Development: A Time to Grow (Rpt, G)
8.30 Portrait of a Family (Part 5) (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Power of Dreams (Part 2) (Rpt, G)
9.50 UK Today (G)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon Midday (News)
1.00 Lovejoy (Rpt, G)
2.05 Sisters (PGR)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Bananas in Pyjamas (G)
3.25 Monty the Dog (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
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 McCormick
8.00 TeleBingo
8.35 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (PGR)
9.40 Tonight (News)
10.30 London’s Burning (AO)
11.35 Cardiac Arrest (AO)
12.10am Infomercials
1.05 Blue Heelers (Rpt, PGR)
1.55 BBC World, including: 1.55 Time Out - The Clothes Show
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
3.30 HARDtalk
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - Fasten Your Seat Belt
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 6.30am)
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 G-Force (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 (PGR)
2.00 Ricki Lake (AO)
3.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
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 Suddenly Susan (PGR)
8.00 Headline News Includes further updates at approx 9pm and 10pm
8.05 Spin City (G)
8.35 Wednesday Night at the Movies: Deadly Whispers (1995) (AO)
10.30 Walker, Texas Ranger (AO)
11.30 Seinfeld (Rpt, PGR)
12.00am The Late Show with David Letterman
12.55 Platypus Man (AO)
1.25 The Commish (Double episode) (AO)
3.10 Step by Step (Rpt, G)
3.35 Rescue 911 (aka “Rescue”) (PGR)
4.45 Duckman (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 Give Us a Clue (NZ, double episode) (Rpt, G)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
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 Boy Meets World (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 Hospital (PGR)
8.00 Cosby (G)
8.30 Mini-Series: Danielle Steel’s Zoya (Part 2, final) (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 M.A.N.T.I.S. (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 The World Today (Continued) CTV: Welcome to Canterbury (6am-3pm; including Marketplace at 11am)
6.30 HARDtalk
7.00 BBC World News
7.30 World Focus - Britain in View
8.00 BBC World News
8.30 Time Out - The Clothes Show
9.00 BBC Newsdesk COAST TO COAST
9.00 Time Out - Tomorrow’s World
9.30 Pacific Highway
10.00 Home Shopping
11.30 Marketplace
Noon BBC World Includes Newsnight (at 12.10pm) CTV
4.00 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 Time Out - Top Gear
8.00 Homes & Gardens CTV: Oderings Homes & Gardens
8.30 Rhodes (Final)
9.35 Jeeves and Wooster
10.35 Marketplace
11.05 BBC Newsdesk CTV: Welcome to Canterbury (11.30pm until 6am)
12.30am World Focus - Britain in View
1.00 BBC World News
1.30 Time Out - The Clothes Show
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia & Pacific
3.30 HARDtalk
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - Fasten Your Seat Belt
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 6.30am)
Today’s TV: Thursday 11 April 1974
from the NZ Listener
NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm Headline News and Weather*
2.05 This Afternoon
2.37 Medical Centre*
3.27 Tomorrow Today
3.41 The Undersea World of Jacque Cousteau (Rpt)
4.34 Play School
4.59 Hammy Hamster’s Adventures on the Riverbank*
5.12 Spot On
5.40 Headline News*
5.44 Mad Movies
6.13 The Brady Bunch*
6.42 Graphline
7.00 Network News
7.22 Regional Weather and News AKTV2 (Auckland): Look North
WNTV1 (Wellington): Newsview
CHTV3 (Christchurch): The South Tonight
DNTV2 (Dunedin): The South Tonight
7.47 Coronation Street
8.17 Alias Smith and Jones*
9.14 Newsbrief*
9.16 Nationwide
9.42 Love Thy Neighbour*
10.10 Late News and Weather*
10.16 Closedown
Today’s TV: Thursday 12 April 1984
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.00 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 Sesame Street
3.55 After School, including (all times approx): 4.05 Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald (Rpt)
4.30 Video Dispatch
4.55 Kupu
5.00 The Tomorrow People (Rpt)
5.30 Viewfinder (Series return) Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
Programme ends at 6pm on TV One everywhere - except the East Coast where it ends at 5.55pm (see below)
5.55 Te Karere East Coast viewers only; TV One’s regular programming continues at 6pm
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street (Double episode)
8.30 Close Up
9.30 Butterflies
10.00 Dynasty
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Upstairs, Downstairs (Rpt)
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Ocean Dynamics - The Work of the Sea
4.10 Thursday Afternoon Movie: Journey for Margaret (1942)
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere On TV2 everywhere - except the East Coast where it broadcasts on TV One
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Love Boat
7.30 Miss Universe New Zealand 1984
8.30 Hotel
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Part 6)
11.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown
In April 1984 “Poi E” was atop the NZ music charts, with ‘Jo the breakdancer’ starring in the song’s music video. Viewfinder, which had been on air since 1983, made a welcome return to NZ TV screens on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 5.30pm on the evening of Thursday 12 April 1984.
In the first edition for 1984, Phillipa (Pip) Dann headed to Mangere to bop and head-spin when it came to breakdancing, while David Hindley reported on a School Certificate controversy and why young drivers were dying on country roads. Uelese Petaia (star of the 1979 film Sons for the Return Home) was part of the Viewfinder team as a reporter.
Viewfinder was produced by TVNZ at its Dunedin studios and described by the NZ Listener as a magazine programme ‘for people in their last years at school and first years in and out of work’, covering items of interest to teenagers and young adults. Other reporters included Michael Barry, Natalie Brunt (now Natalie Chetkovich), Peter Verstappen, Penelope Sinclair and Nemo Adam.
Viewfinder ended in 1986.
You can watch the 12 April 1984 edition via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Today’s TV: Wednesday 13 April 1994
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.50am Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 eTV - World Religions (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt) A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 eTV, including: 8.30 A Love Divided (G)
9.30 Child Development: A Time to Grow (Rpt, G)
10.00 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
10.55 Bergerac (Rpt, PGR)
Noon A Country Practice (G)
1.00 Benson (Rpt, G)
1.30 CBS Evening News
2.05 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
3.05 Knots Landing
4.10 Home and Away (G)
4.40 Take the High Road (G)
5.10 Te Karere
5.20 Strike It Lucky (G)
5.50 One World of Sport - Yachting The Whitbread Report
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.35 Casualty (AO)
9.35 Keeping Up Appearances (Series return) (G)
10.15 PrimeTime
10.50 First Hand - Just Words (G)
11.20 Classic Comedy - Yes Minister (Rpt, G)
11.55 Matlock (PGR)
12.55am Film on One: The Shooting Party (1984) (Rpt, AO)
2.40 Closedown
Channel 2
6.35am Jungle Tales (Rpt, G)
7.00 Bob in a Bottle (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
8.00 Jem (Rpt, G)
8.30 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
8.40 Bananas in Pyjamas (Rpt, G)
8.45 Barney & Friends
9.10 Shining Time Station
9.40 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
10.00 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Sibs (PGR)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Chatterbox (G)
2.50 Noddy (Rpt, G)
3.00 The Son of a Gunn Show (G) Includes Widget at 3.15pm
4.00 Rugrats (G)
4.30 The Cartoon Company (G)
5.00 Paradise Beach (G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
6.30 Cheers (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 Roseanne (PGR)
8.30 Eyewitness
9.30 Under Investigation
10.05 Sightings (G)
10.35 2 Newsnight
11.05 Secrets of the National Enquirer
12.05am Pros & Cons (G)
1.10 Closedown
TV3
6.30am Bush School (G)
7.00 The Muppet Show (G)
7.30 Charles in Charge (G)
8.00 Transformers (G)
8.30 You and Me (G)
8.55 You Bet Your Life (G)
9.25 The Infomercial Hour
10.25 Entertainment Tonight (G)
10.55 Yan Can Cook (G)
11.30 The Graham Kerr Show (G)
Noon Donahue (PGR)
1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
2.00 General Hospital (PGR)
3.00 ABC World News Tonight
3.30 Parent Time (G)
3.35 You and Me (G)
4.00 My Three Sons (G)
4.30 Gilligan’s Island (G)
5.00 Hogan’s Heroes (G)
5.30 5.30 Live
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hard Copy (PGR)
7.30 Beyond 2000 (G)
8.30 Inside New Zealand - Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power (Part 1) (AO)
9.30 The Ralston Group
10.00 Four Corners
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Adult Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
12.05am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Top Rank Boxing (Continued)
7.00 Yachting Quest for Speed
8.00 Max Out
8.30 Radical Outdoor Challenge
9.00 Hot Shotz
10.00 Racehorse Digest
10.30 Sportscenter
11.30 Sky Sport - Tennis ATP Tour highlights
Noon Max Out
12.30 Basketball NBA - Chicago v New Jersey, live
3.00 Polo US Open Championships
4.00 Fishing DB Furuno Fishing Contest
5.00 Skiing US Men’s Pro Tour
6.00 AFL Highlights 1994
7.00 English Premier League Highlights 1993/94
8.00 Basketball NBA - Chicago v New Jersey, full replay
9.30 Front Row Rugby League
10.00 Boxing Heavyweight Explosion
11.30 Surfing World Bodyboard Championships - from Oahu, Hawaii
12.00am ESPN Direct - Basketball NBA - Chicago v New Jersey, full replay
2.30 NHL International Weekly
3.30 Snowboarding Butterfly Pro
4.00 Cheerleading 1994 High School Dance Team Championships
5.00 Kauai Duathlon (Continues to 6am)
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am World Business Today
6.30 World News
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 International Hour
8.00 World News
9.00 World Business Today Update
9.30 Showbiz Today
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
Noon Crossfire
1.00 Larry King Live
2.00 World News
3.30 Showbiz Today
4.00 World News
5.30 Moneyline
6.00 Worldwide Update
7.00 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
7.30 Headline News
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
9.00 Larry King Replay
10.00 Crossfire
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 World News
11.30 Business Day
12.00am World News
12.30 Business Asia
1.00 Larry King Replay
2.00 World News
3.30 Business Asia
4.00 News Hour
5.00 World News (Continues to 6am)
Sky Movies (HBO)
11.45am Far and Away (1992) (GA)
2.00pm The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts (1978) (G) Click the NZ On Screen link below
3.15 Ernest Goes to Jail (1988) (G)
4.45 A League of Their Own (1992) (GY)
7.00 Sketches (1989) (GA)
9.00 Showcase International - La Strada (aka “The Road”) (1954) (R16) An Italian film with English subtitles
10.45 Midnight Express (1978) (R18)
12.50am Inside Out (R18)
1.16 Closedown
@OnAir Part one of a two-part Inside New Zealand documentary, Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, screened on TV3 (now Three) at 8.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 13 April 1994.
Many who were close to (Sir) Robert Muldoon - one of NZ’s most charismatic prime ministers, who died in 1992 - felt free to start putting his life into perspective and to consider his legacy.
You can watch part one via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Or you can watch part two (first aired 20 April 1994) below.
Meanwhile, the 1978 children’s film The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts - written by Ian Mune and Arthur Baysting and directed by Ross Jennings - screened on Sky Movies/HBO at 2pm that afternoon and you can watch it via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Today’s TV: Tuesday 14 April 1981
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show
11.30 Yoga with Sandra Riddle
11.35 House Calls (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Crown Court
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Play School (Rpt) A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.50 Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder and Cloudberry
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 After School, including: 4.00 The Littlest Hobo
4.25 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
4.45 Video Dispatch
5.05 The Beachcombers
5.35 Dr Who - Leisure Hive (Part 4)
6.00 Science Express
6.30 News
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Regional Programmes Auckland: Top Half
Wellington: Today Tonight
Christchurch: The Mainland Touch
Dunedin: 7.30 South
8.00 Fair Go
8.30 Feltex Television Awards 1981 Live from the Maidment Theatre, Auckland
9.30 Only When I Laugh (Series premiere)
10.00 Knots Landing
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.20 General Hospital
3.50 Focus
4.05 Eight Is Enough
5.00 Solid Gold
6.00 Programme to be announced See below for details
6.30 Blankety Blank
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
8.00 Benson
8.30 Monte Carlo Show
9.30 Eye Witness
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 On the Mat
11.00 Police Story
11.50 Closedown
On the evening of Monday 30 March 1981, TVNZ launched a supplementary news bulletin that acted as a lead-in to its main evening news via TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 6.30pm.
Called News at Six, the supplementary bulletin aired on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 6pm every night from Monday to Friday and ran for half an hour. The first half of the bulletin covered the national and international news of the day, while the second half brought to a national audience the pick of items from TVNZ’s regional programmes. On Fridays, a preview of the weekend’s sport and racing was featured.
On weekends, the five-minute headline bulletin continued to air on TV2 at 5.55pm.
Today’s TV: Monday 15 April 1991
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.15am Teletext in Vision
10.30 Classics on One: Bank Shot (1974)
Noon Designing Women (Rpt, G)
12.30 Film on One: Tell Then Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
2.15 Earthfile
2.35 Matinee on One: Baby Sister (1983)
4.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.45 Take the High Road (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Me and My Girl (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 ‘Allo ‘Allo! (Rpt, PGR)
8.05 Fawlty Towers (Final) (Rpt, PGR)
8.45 Beyond 2000 (PGR)
9.45 Haggard (Final) (PGR)
10.15 One Network News
10.45 Monday Documentary - Nippon (Part 6, final) (G)
11.55 In Sickness and in Health (PGR)
12.30am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Gumby Adventures (Rpt, G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Casper and Friends (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt) A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.25 Porky Pig Cartoons (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.40 Play School (Rpt)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Bewitched (Rpt, G)
2.30 After 2, including: 2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Rainbow (Rpt, G)
3.15 Fireman Sam (G)
3.30 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
4.00 Captain N: The Game Master
4.30 C.O.P.S (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Blind Date
6.30 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 The Flying Doctors (G)
8.30 LA Law (AO)
9.30 Jake and the Fatman
10.30 Aussie League on 2 1991 Winfield Cup - full coverage of yesterday’s match
12.20am Closedown
TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 On Trial
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.20 Aunties’ Alphabet
3.30 The Disney Afternoon, including: 3.30 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
4.00 Mickey Mouse Club (G)
4.30 Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (G)
5.00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (G)
7.30 Candid Camera (G)
8.00 Lenny
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Peter Gunn (1989) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Hot Pursuit (AO)
12.00am Closedown
Sky Sport
8.00am Golf US Masters 1991 - final round; live from Augusta, Georgia
11.00 Closedown
Noon Rugby Extra (Rpt) Queensland v Canterbury - from Ballymore, Brisbane
1.30 Motorsport - Modified Car Racing
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Bodyshaping
3.00 Baseball - Major League Baseball
5.00 Motorsport NASCAR Winston Cup - Valleydale 500; from Bristol, Tennessee
7.00 Rugby League UK Rugby League 1990/91 - Oldham v Hull
8.30 Golf US Masters 1991 - final round
10.30 Tennis Bausch & Lomb Champs - final; from Amelia Island, Florida
12.00am Closedown
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including BBC News at 8.30am & 7pm
Sky Movies
Noon The Square Peg (1958) (G)
2.00 A New Life (1988) (GA)
4.00 The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
6.00 Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) (RP13)
8.00 Heat (1987) (R16)
10.00 Dead Ringers (1989) (R16)
11.55 Fair Game (1982) (R16)
1.18am Closedown
Today’s TV: Monday 17 April 1978
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Days of Our Lives
2.05 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.30 Nice One
2.35 Play School
3.00 Gussy the Kangaroo (Final) (Rpt)
3.05 Barbapapa
3.10 Bucky and Pepito (Rpt)
3.20 Origami (Rpt)
3.30 The Tomorrow People (Rpt)
3.55 My Favourite Martian
4.20 Nice One
4.25 Room 222 (Rpt)
4.50 The Virginian (Rpt)
6.00 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
6.30 News Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Wings (Part 2)
8.20 Dateline Monday
9.00 The Dick Emery Show
9.30 News
9.40 Full Circle
10.45 Le Jeune Homme et La Morte (Rpt)
11.00 News and Weather
11.05 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Search for Tomorrow
3.25 Chic Chat, including: 3.25 Romper Room
3.55 Mumbly
4.10 Roger Ramjet
4.15 Batfink (Rpt)
4.20 Quick Draw McGraw (Rpt)
4.25 Clutch Cargo (Rpt)
4.30 Hey Hey It’s Andy, including: 4.30 The Big Blue Marble
5.00 Batman (Rpt)
5.30 Top Cat (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Radio Waves (Starting tonight) Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
7.00 Welcome Back Kotter
7.30 Code ‘R’
8.30 Oh No It’s Selwyn Froggitt
9.00 The Doll (Starting tonight, part 1)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Shadow of the Tower (Part 12)
Followed by Closedown
Radio Waves premiered on South Pacific Television (now TVNZ 2) at 6.30pm on the evening of Monday 17 April 1978.
Set in 1970s Auckland, Radio Waves was a twice-weekly serial drama about a private radio station which played rock ‘n’ roll music in the age of disco and flares. But the staff who ran it lived their lives to a different beat.
Playing womanising DJs were musician Andy Anderson (as Paul Headley) and one-time DJ Grant Bridger (as Win Savage) while Alan Dale made his screen debut as their station manager, Jack Delamore, and went to star in The Young Doctors (as Dr John Forrest), Neighbours (as Jim Robinson) and in such US TV hits as 24, Lost, The OC, Ugly Betty and many more.
Created by Graeme Farmer, Radio Waves aired twice a week on Mondays and Tuesdays at 6.30pm - a time when SPTV was still struggled to win a national audience. There were still hopes the new show could beat TV One’s (now TVNZ 1) flagship soap, Close to Home, which aired Mondays and Tuesdays at 7pm (right after the news).
While Radio Waves only lasted 36 weeks (72 episodes), its cast of go-getting urbanites in big collars signalled the changing face of Kiwi TV drama.
You can watch the first episode of Radio Waves via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Today’s TV: Monday 18 April 1988
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.25am Teletext in Vision
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style
11.05 Play School (Rpt)
11.30 Kohanga Reo (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow
Noon Midday News
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Shelley (Rpt)
1.40 Days of Our Lives
2.40 A Horseman Riding By (Rpt)
3.30 Masterworks
3.45 Coronation Street (Double episode) (Rpt)
4.45 Man About the House (Rpt)
5.15 Emmerdale Farm
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 Kate & Allie (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 Ever Decreasing Circles
8.00 Bergerac
9.00 Public Eye
9.30 The Black Tower (Part 4)
10.30 The World Snooker Championship
12.05am Closedown
Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Love Connection
12.30 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
1.00 The Sullivans (Double episode) (Rpt)
2.00 Alice
2.30 Play School
2.55 After School, including (all times approx): 3.00 The Smurfs
3.30 Square One
4.00 DuckTales
4.30 Professor Poopsnagle’s Steam Zeppelin
4.55 Grange Hill
5.25 Webster
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Spot On
7.00 RTR Countdown
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 It’s in the Bag
8.30 Cheers
9.00 LA Law
10.00 EyeWitness Current affairs, “WorldWatch” and a news update
11.00 Barney Miller (Rpt)
11.30 Adam-12
12.00am Closedown
NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 On Camera
2.45 The Most Deadly Games
3.37 Country Calendar (Rpt)
3.53 Happen Inn (Rpt)
4.33 Play School
5.00 The Inhabitant of the Chiming Clock
5.15 Zorro
5.39 Headline News and Weather
5.44 The Partridge Family
6.14 Temperatures Rising (Rpt)
6.40 In Your Garden
7.00 Network News
7.22 Weather / The South Tonight
7.45 Coronation Street
8.15 Ironside
9.14 Newsbrief
9.16 Gallery
9.44 All in the Family
10.12 The Protectors
10.40 Winter Games
10.56 Late News and Weather
11.03 Closedown
Today’s TV: Wednesday 20 April 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
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 Royal Tour 1983 Live from the Civic Centre, Wellington (walkabout)
3.05 The Wombles (Rpt)
3.10 Chic Chat
3.40 After School, including (all times approx): 3.40 Oscar: The Rabbit in Rubbidge
3.55 3-2-1 Contact
4.10 The Littlest Hobo
4.35 Kia Kite, Kia Rongo, Kia Mohio
4.40 Flintstone Frolics
5.00 The Coral Island (Starting today, part 1)
5.30 World of Sport 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 The Computer Programme (Part 8)
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 Joanie Loves Chachi
8.00 Royal Tour Live from Parliament (State Banquet arrival)
8.05 Breakaway (Part 3)
8.40 Close Up
9.40 Movie for Television: Our Family Business (1981)
11.00 News
11.05 Royal Tour Delayed coverage from Parliament (State Banquet speeches)
11.35 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Fantasy Island (Rpt)
4.45 Taxi (Rpt)
5.15 RTR Video Releases
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 The Greatest American Hero
7.30 That’s Country
8.30 The Sullivans (Double episode)
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Flicks
10.15 Money Report
10.30 Barney Miller
11.00 Baretta
11.50 Closedown
Today’s TV: Wednesday 21 April 1993
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.35am Teletext in Vision
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 Survival (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt) A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 Beyond 2000 (Rpt, G)
9.30 The Best of British (PGR)
10.00 Film on One: Sea Dragon (1991)
Noon Eldorado (G)
12.30 CBS Evening News
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.00 All Creatures Great and Small (Rpt, G)
3.10 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
4.10 Home and Away (G)
4.45 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
5.15 Te Karere
5.30 Sale of the Century (G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.35 Minder (G)
9.40 PrimeTime (News)
10.10 Michael Winner’s True Crimes (Starting tonight, part 1)
10.40 Counterpoint
11.25 Chancer (Part 2) (AO)
12.30am Film on One: Grand Slam 3 (1989) (AO)
2.15 Closedown
Channel 2
6.30am Three Little Ghosts (Rpt, G)
7.00 Secret Squirrel (Final) (Rpt, G)
7.30 Wake, Rattle & Roll (G)
8.00 The Snorks (Rpt, G)
8.30 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
8.35 eTV - Sesame Street (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.00 Davis Rules (G)
10.30 Candid Camera (G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (PGR)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Play School
2.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
3.00 Tiki Tiki Forest Gang (G)
3.05 The Son of a Gunn Show, including (all times approx): 3.15 The Muppet Babies (G)
3.40 RollaBall (G)
3.50 Gadgets (G)
4.00 The Adventures of T-Rex (G)
4.30 The Adventures of Tintin (G)
5.00 The Cartoon Company
5.30 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
6.00 Neighbours (G)
6.30 Face the Music (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Rescue 911 (aka “Rescue 111”, series return)
8.00 Fair Go
8.30 The Wednesday Star Movie: Prizzi’s Honor (1985) (Rpt, AO)
11.05 Studs
11.35 Tour of Duty (Rpt, AO)
12.40am Booker (Rpt, AO)
1.40 Closedown
TV3
6.30am The Scheme of Things (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Adventures of Skippy (Rpt, G)
7.30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (G)
8.00 Transformers (Rpt, G)
8.30 You and Me (Rpt, G)
8.55 Parent Time (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Magic Box (G)
9.30 Walter and Emily (G)
10.00 The Price Is Right (Rpt, G)
10.30 Empty Nest (Rpt, PGR)
11.00 Tropical Heat
Noon Donahue (PGR)
1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
2.00 ABC World News Tonight
2.30 Parent Time (G)
2.35 You and Me (G)
3.00 Disney Adventures, including: 3.00 Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Rpt, G)
3.30 TaleSpin (Rpt, G)
4.00 Darkwing Duck (G)
4.30 The Wonder Years (G)
5.00 The Golden Girls (Rpt, G)
5.30 5.30 Live
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
7.30 Issues (PGR)
8.00 Home Improvement (G)
8.30 Hard Copy (AO)
9.30 The Ralston Group
10.00 Herman’s Head (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Night Heat (Rpt, AO)
12.00am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.30am ESPN Direct - Surfing Wyland Pro
7.00 American Muscle
8.00 Karate
9.00 AMA Supercross Series
10.00 NBA Today
10.30 Thoroughbred Digest
11.00 Sportscenter
11.30 Ice Hockey NHL playoffs - divisional semifinals; live
2.30pm Sky Sport - Fly Fishing the World
3.00 Golf US Senior Skins 1993 - from Hawaii
5.00 Motorsport IMSA GTP - Atlantic Grand Prix; from Hampton, Georgia
6.30 Tennis Davis Cup - Spain v Netherlands; highlights of round one
7.30 Snooker The World Snooker Championship 1993
9.30 Italian Football
10.30 ESPN Direct - Ice Hockey NHL playoffs - divisional semifinals; full replay
1.30am Offroad Racing
2.30 Sportscenter
3.00 ESPN Fitness Pros
3.30 Getting Fit
4.00 Bodies in Motion
4.30 Bodyshaping
5.00 Motoworld
5.30 Whitewater Rafting (Continues to 6am) European Championships
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day,
plus BBC News at 7am & 7pm and One Network News (TVNZ) at 8.30pm
Sky Movies (HBO)
Noon Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) (GA)
1.30 Three Men and a Little Lady (1990) (GA)
3.10 Richie Rich (G)
3.30 Malachi’s Cove (GY)
5.00 Steel (1980, aka “Men of Steel, Look Down and Die”) (GA)
6.45 Short Film - Gordon Bennett
7.00 The Rookie (1990) (R16)
9.00 Showcase International - White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) (GA)
11.00 The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) (GA)
12.40am The Heist (1989) (GA)
2.13 Closedown
