Should’ve been swapped with the news to put everyone to sleep prior to closedown.
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Today’s TV: Thursday 14 May 1992
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.25am Teletext in Vision
10.40 Kilroy
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News Tonight
1.00 Film on One: Yogi and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987) (Rpt, G)
2.50 Quantum (Rpt, G)
3.05 Nonni and Manni (Part 3) (Rpt, G)
4.15 Emmerdale (G)
4.45 Families (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.30 Casualty (AO)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
10.30 Tonight (News)
11.00 A Tale of Two Cities (Part 1) (PGR)
1.05am Closedown
Channel 2
6.20am Care Bears (Rpt, G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Video Power (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 Magilla Gorilla (Rpt, G)
8.35 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 A Different World (G)
2.30 Jase TV, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.05 Brum (G)
3.20 Mother Goose Stories (G)
3.30 The Son of a Gunn Show
4.00 The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Rpt, G)
4.30 James Bond Jr (G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show (G)
5.30 Face the Music (G)
6.00 Doogie Howser MD (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (G)
8.00 Roseanne (G)
8.30 Married… with Children (PGR)
9.00 Only Fools and Horses (Rpt, PGR)
9.30 Unsolved Mysteries
10.35 Late Night Studs (AO)
11.10 The Hitchhiker (AO)
11.40 Glory Days (PGR)
12.45am Closedown
TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
1.00 Donahue (PGR)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Generations (PGR)
3.00 3PM, including:
3.10 Widget (G)
3.45 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
4.25 TaleSpin (G)
5.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Addams Family (B&W) (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
7.30 3 Special - Fire & Ice (G)
8.30 Thursday Night at the Movies: Danielle Steel’s Palomino (1991) (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.15 Night Heat (AO)
12.15am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.30am ESPN Direct - Running
World Cross Country Championships
7.00 German Soccer Weekly
7.30 The Sunkist Kids
8.00 Global Supercard Wrestling
9.00 Monster Trucks
9.30 Thoroughbred Digest
10.00 Inside the PGA Tour
10.30 Up Close
11.00 Spanish Football (Highlights)
11.30 Sky Sport - Horse Racing
Live from Ellerslie - race one at 11.40am, race two at 12.15pm, race three at 12.45pm, race four at 1.20pm, race five at 1.50pm, race six at 2.25pm, race seven at 3pm, race eight at 3.30pm, race nine at 4.05pm and race 10 at 4.35pm
5.00pm Pro Wrestling
6.00 Inside the PGA
6.30 Olympic Special - For the Honour of their Country
7.00 Rugby - The State of the Union
8.00 Top Rank Boxing
Lightweights - Todd Foster v Jazzy Jeff Mayweather
9.30 ESPN Direct - World League Football
12.30am The Sunkist Kids
1.00 Basic Training Workout
1.30 Bodyshaping
2.00 Mountain Man Triathlon
3.00 Body by Jake
3.30 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
4.00 Bodies in Motion
4.30 Bodyshaping
5.00 Polo (Continues to 6am)
World Cup Polo - from Palm Beach, California
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including
BBC News at 7am & 7pm
One Network News (TVNZ) at 8.30pm
Sky Movies
Noon Trade Winds (1938) (G)
1.33 Best of British
2.00 Illegally Yours (1988) (GY)
4.00 Mac and Me (1988) (GY)
5.50 Gorillas in the Mist (1988) (GA)
8.00 The Sign of Four (1983) (GA)
10.00 Triumph of the Spirit (1989) (R13)
12.00am My First Wife (1984)
1.34 Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
5.00pm Susan Sells
5.30 First Report (News)
7.00 Westpac 50 Plus
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 The Evening Movie: David Copperfield (1970) (PGR)
10.40 Susan Sells (Rpt)
11.10 Closedown
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I’ve never understood the reasoning of Channel 2 putting news in the middle of their morning children’s programmes, especially a bulletin that’s repeated twice in the space of an hour.
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@LiamP ITN World News, via satellite from London through ITN, aired on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) twice each weekday at 7am and 8am. During the summer months, the programme was shown only once (at 8am).
TVNZ’s Māori news programme Te Karere was also shown on Channel 2 at 6.50am. In fact, it was a repeat of the previous day’s broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) - except Friday’s, which was repeated the following Monday.
By the start of 1993, ITN World News and the Te Karere repeats were transferred to TV One. This allowed Channel 2 to carry a full schedule of children’s programming in the early morning.
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Today’s TV: Friday 18 May 1990 (Sky’s first day on air)
from the NZ Listener
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newsday
7.00 CNN International Hour
8.00 Newsday
8.30 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
9.00 Newswatch
9.30 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
2.00 CNN Evening News
3.00 Moneyline
3.30 CNN Sports Tonight
4.00 Newsnight
5.00 Showbiz Today
5.30 Newsnight Update
6.30 Sports Latenight
7.00 News Overnight
7.30 CNN Newsroom
8.00 Larry King Overnight
9.00 Crossfire
9.30 Earlybird News
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Business Day
12.00am Daybreak
1.00 CNN Morning News
2.00 World Day
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 Newshour
5.00 Sonya Live in LA (Continues to 6am)
Sky Sport
5.00pm The Opening Shot
6.00 Top Rank Boxing
Andrew Maynard v Mike Sedillo
7.00 AWA Wrestling
8.00 Golf
The Southwestern Bell Classic
9.15 Rugby League
Includes 1990 Winfield Cup (live) and British Premiership final (highlights)
12.00am Closedown
Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth
12.30 Loving (1970)
2.00 SpaceCamp (1986)
4.00 Lovesick (1983)
6.00 Willow (1988)
8.05 The Man from Snowy River (1982)
10.00 Never Say Die (1988)
12.05am Closedown
Sky Network Television, NZ’s first entry into pay television service, began on this day (18 May) in 1990 with a 24 hour news channel and movie and sport channels each broadcasting from noon until around midnight. They were known as Sky News (a combination of both CNN and the BBC, in fact), Sky Movies and Sky Sport respectively - all of which were only available in the greater Auckland region from day one.
But all television viewers within the region who wished to sample the new pay channels could still receive a ‘free-to-air’ news broadcast and a free sports hour each day. All you had to do was to tune your television set to a UHF channel and the Sky signal.
The free news broadcasts, according to the NZ Listener, could be seen on Mondays from 7-9am (CNN World Report and the BBC’s 6pm news), Tuesdays to Saturdays from 6-8am (one hour of Newsday, a US network news round-up, and the CNN International Hour) and Sundays from 6-8am (News Update, Health Week, Style with Elsa Klensch, On the Menu and Your Money).
The free-to-air sports slot was 5-6pm on a nightly basis. In its first week Sky Sport commenced on Friday with an hour-long preview show called The Opening Shot, giving us a sneak peek at the next few months of sport on Sky, while Saturday and Sunday saw live coverage of the first half of rugby league matches as the 1990 NSWRL/Winfield Cup season continued.
The VideoCrypt decoders to unscramble the Sky signal were on sale from your local electrical store (most of which were authorised by Sky) for $399. Once you bought the decoder, a subscription to all three Sky channels would cost you about $11.25 per week ($45 per month).
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Today’s TV: Friday 19 May 1978
from the NZ Listener
TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Forearmed
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.40 Nice One Auckland
2.45 Play School
3.15 The Wombles (Final) (Rpt)
3.20 The Lost Saucer (Final)
3.45 Run Joe Run (Final)
4.10 Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
4.35 Nice One Auckland
4.40 The Beachcombers (Final)
5.05 Nice One Auckland
5.10 Apple’s Way (Rpt)
6.00 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes reigonal news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Weekends with One
7.40 CHiPs
8.30 Two on One
9.00 That’s Hollywood!
9.30 News
9.40 Barney Miller
10.05 The Friday Film: The Asphalt Jungle (1950) (B&W)
12.10am News and Weather
12.15 Closedown
South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Search for Tomorrow
3.20 Chic Chat, including:
3.20 Romper Room
3.50 Roger Ramjet
4.00 Chapi Chapo
4.10 The Lone Ranger
4.20 Clutch Cargo (Rpt)
4.25 Hey Hey It’s Andy, including:
4.25 Daniel Boone
5.15 Freewheelin’
5.35 The Brady Bunch (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.25 Police Five
6.30 The Sullivans
6.55 Peek of the Week
7.00 The Many Wives of Patrick
7.25 Telethon Report
7.30 The Good Old Days
8.15 Dinah!
8.30 Cold Journey
9.40 News Stand
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Kaleidoscope
11.30 (approx) Closedown
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified.
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Today’s TV: Saturday 20 May 1989
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 ALF Tales
7.30 The Kidsongs TV Show
8.00 What Now
10.00 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
10.30 Bewitched (Final) (Rpt)
11.00 Space: 1999 (Final) (Rpt)
Noon The High Chaparral (Rpt)
1.00 Great Parks of the World (Starting today, part 1) (Rpt)
1.30 Dad’s Army (Rpt)
2.10 Sport on One
Includes motorsport (500cc Italian Grand Prix), netball (Bendon League - Wellington: PIC v College Rifles, live), parapenting and racing from Te Rapa
6.00 The Spectacular World of Guinness Records
6.30 Network News and Sport
7.00 It’s in the Bag
7.30 Murder, She Wrote
8.30 Aspel & Company
9.15 Network News
9.30 Harness Racing
1989 Rowe Cup - live from Alexandra Park, Auckland
10.00 The Equalizer
10.55 Saturday Night Clive
11.50 Late Movie: Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
1.30am Sports Special - Football
1989 FA Cup final - Liverpool v Everton; live from Wembley Stadium, London
4.00 (approx) Closedown
Network Two
11.20am Teletext in Vision
11.35 Tagata Pasifika
Noon The Munsters (Starting today) (B&W) (Rpt)
12.25 The Saturday Matinee: Green Eyes (1976) (Rpt)
2.05 F Troop (Rpt)
2.35 Fame (Starting today)
3.25 Hot Air and Fantasy - The Making of “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”
3.50 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
4.30 Cooking for Health (Starting today, part 1)
5.00 The Little Vampire (Rpt)
5.30 Batman (Rpt)
6.00 Taxi (Rpt)
6.30 Perfect Strangers
7.00 TV 101
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Sonny Spoon
9.05 The Saturday Night Movie: King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
11.00 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
The 1989 FA Cup final - a Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton - was played at London’s Wembley Stadium and broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 1.30am NZT on the morning of Sunday 21 May 1989. Liverpool won 3-2 after extra time, with goals from John Alridge and two from Ian Rush.
The broadcast rights to that year’s FA Cup final were acquired by NZ’s first private television network, TV3 (now Three), in mid-1988, when its on-air date was March 1989. However, the start date was later put back to November, and the network then sought to buy early morning television time from TVNZ to screen it live.
TVNZ refused that request in April, but sought to buy the rights. TV3 replied on the same day that the rights were not for sale.
The Hillsborough football disaster then put the argument on hold for a time, but the English Football Association decided the FA Cup final would go ahead. TV3 sent its offer to TVNZ to allow the final to be broadcast free of charge, provided that TVNZ paid the delivery costs and the transmission costs.
TV3 would retain the rights, and asked for an announcement on screen showing that the broadcast was being made with its cooperation.
After TVNZ’s announcement that the offer was accepted, Trevor Spitz, TV3’s head of publicity and promotions at the time, billed the broadcast as ‘TV3’s first major live sporting event’.
“We will be anxious to see how the ratings and see how well we went. We are pretty chuffed and pretty excited. In actual fact, TV3 is going to air in May this year, courtesy of TVNZ.”
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Wow! I didn’t know about that Paddy. That’s fascinating!
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Thanks very much, @OnAir. In fact, more classic TV listings (1980-89) and other TV related developments covered by Christchurch’s The Press were added to the Papers Past website recently.
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Today’s TV: Thursday 21 May 1987
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kohanga Reo
11.30 Cockleshell Bay (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.15 Warship (Rpt)
1.10 Dr Kildare (Rpt)
2.10 The Liver Birds (Rpt)
2.45 Nanny (Rpt)
3.40 Green Acres (Rpt)
4.20 Crossroads
4.45 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt)
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 Coronation Stret
8.00 Close Up
9.00 Rugby World Cup Preview
10.00 Dynasty
11.00 Beryl’s Lot (Final) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
TV2
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Hart to Hart (Rpt)
12.55 A Family at War (Rpt)
1.55 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.25 Tales of the Wizard of Oz
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.55 Free Time, including (all times approx):
4.00 Alvin and the Chipmunks
4.30 The Edison Twins
4.55 Shazam!
5.30 Moon Jumper (Part 2)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 A Country Practice
7.30 That’s Fairly Interesting
8.00 The Flying Doctors
9.00 Miami Vice
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, “Worldwatch” and a news update
11.00 Night Gallery (Final)
11.55 Closedown
Notes
I had to put “Teletext in Vision” in this post as in-vision pages from TVNZ’s now-defunct Teletext service ran for 15 minutes before the start of transmission on both TVNZ channels each day, despite the fact that Teletext in Vision was not listed in the NZ Listener.
Teletext in Vision began on Monday 1 July 1985 and coincided with TVNZ’s extended hours. For instance, TV One (now TVNZ 1) opened transmission at 10.30am on weekdays, 7am on Saturdays and 8am on Sundays. TV2 (now TVNZ 2) kicked off at noon on weekdays and 11am on weekends.
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Today’s TV: Monday 25 May 1992
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.30am Teletext in Vision
10.45 Kilroy
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News Tonight
1.00 Film on One: Nutcracker (1986) (G)
2.40 Fresh Fields (Rpt, PGR)
3.15 Entertainment Tonight
4.15 Take the High Road (G)
4.45 Families (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 The Power and the Glory (Part 8)
8.00 Wheels (G)
8.30 Bergerac (PGR)
9.30 Stay Lucky (PGR)
10.30 Tonight (News)
11.00 Monday Documentary - The Transformers (Part 2) (G)
12.15am Closedown
Channel 2
6.20am Care Bears (Rpt, G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Video Power (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 Bastian and Barbara (G)
8.35 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 A Different World (G)
2.30 Jase TV, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.05 Joshua Jones (G)
3.20 Truckers (G)
3.30 The Son of a Gunn Show
4.00 The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Rpt, G)
4.30 James Bond Jr (G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show (G)
5.30 Face the Music (G)
6.00 Neighbours (New timeslot) (G)
6.30 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (Series premiere) (PGR)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch
7.30 The Flying Doctors (G)
8.30 Mini-Series: In a Child’s Name (Part 2, final) (AO)
10.20 Studs (aka “Late Night Studs”) (PGR)
10.50 Anything but Love (PGR)
11.20 Almost Grown (AO)
12.25am Closedown
TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
1.00 Donahue (PGR)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Generations (PGR)
3.00 3PM, including:
3.10 Widget (G)
3.45 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
4.25 TaleSpin (G)
5.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Addams Family (B&W) (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
7.30 McDonald’s Candid Camera (G)
8.00 The Golden Girls (PGR)
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Up the Creek (1984) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.15 WIOU (AO)
12.15am Closedown
Sky Sport
6.00am Sky Sport - Motorsport (Continued)
Indianapolis 500 - live
7.30 Gillette World Sport Special
8.00 Muscle Magazine
8.30 ESPN Direct - Cycling
Paris (Roubaix Classic)
9.00 Cycling
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
9.30 Golf
Senior PGA (Bell Atlantic Classic) - live
11.20 Baseball Tonight
Noon Baseball
Major League Baseball (Minnesota v Detroit) - live
3.00 Sky Sport - Bodies in Motion
3.30 Bodyshaping
4.00 Equestrian
Badminton Horse Trials
5.00 Motorsport
Indianapolis 500 - full replay
7.30 Golf
PGA (Southwestern Bell Classic) - final round; from the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, USA
8.30 Yachting
America’s Cup 1992 - finals; highlights
9.00 Tennis
French Open 1992 - live from Roland Garros Stadium
12.30am ESPN Direct - The Sunkist Kids
1.00 Basic Training Workout
1.30 Bodyshaping
2.00 ESPN’s Classic Summer
3.00 Body by Jake
3.30 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
4.00 Bodies in Motion
4.30 Bodyshaping
5.00 NASCAR Checkered Flag
5.30 Motorsport (Continues to 8am)
IMSA GTP (Lime Rock Camel Grand Prix) - live
Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including
BBC News at 7am & 7pm
One Network News (TVNZ) at 8.30pm
Sky Movies
Noon Personals (1990) (R16)
1.30 Best of British (G)
2.00 My First Wife (1984)
4.00 Super Space Fortress Macross (1984) (G)
6.00 Crazy People (1990) (GA)
7.35 Box Office America (G)
8.00 Innocents Abroad (1983) (GY)
10.00 The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) (R16)
11.30 The Chocolate War (1988) (GY)
1.10am Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
5.00pm Susan Sells
5.30 First Report (News)
7.00 DB Sport
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (G)
9.30 Rugby: The Christchurch Game
11.00 Susan Sells (Rpt)
11.30 Closedown
“You’re not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!”
Shortland Street, New Zealand’s first (and only) five-nights-a-week serial drama, premiered on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) at 7pm on the evening of Monday 25 May 1992.
The premiere episode began with a pregnant woman being rushed to the Shortland Street accident and emergency clinic after an accident. Only the doctors were all missing. A new doctor, Hone Ropata (played by Temuera Morrison), had a dramatic start to life at the clinic and made the call to deliver the baby. Head nurse Carrie Burton (Lisa Crittenden) disagreed, and proceeded to mention that Dr Ropata was no longer in Guatemala. Keep an eye out for Suzy Aiken (now Suzy Clarkson) as a fitness instructor!
In fact, Shortland Street was not our first soap - that was Close to Home, which ran for 818 episodes over its eight-year run (1975-83) and screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 7pm every Monday and Tuesday before moving to 7.30pm in 1982.
You can watch the premiere of Shortland Street via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.
Australian soap Neighbours was moved to the earlier timeslot of 6pm and the celebrity edition of the NZ game show Wheel of Fortune (aka Celebrity Wheel of Fortune) followed at 6.30pm, although that edition ran for only a week and Wheel of Fortune went back to normal the next week. Celebrities included Sir Robert Muldoon, Ginette McDonald (Lynn of Tawa) Joanna Paul, Robert Rakete, Jason Gunn, Alison Holst, Jude Dobson, Susan Devoy, Jordan Luck, Peter Rowley, Ian Smith, Pat Evison and Va’aiga Tuigamala (Inga the Winger).
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune returned later that year as a weekly series on Saturday nights.
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Today’s TV: Monday 26 May 1986
from the NZ Listener
TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 Sport Aid Special - Race Against Time
8.00 Closedown
8.45 Teletext in Vision
9.00 Play School (Rpt)
9.25 Curious George (Rpt)
9.30 The Wombles (Rpt)
9.35 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
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 Last of the Summer Wine (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 Captain Pugwash
3.05 The Munch Bunch (Rpt)
3.15 Danger Mouse
3.25 After School, including:
3.30 Treasure Chest (Rpt)
3.33 Cantinflas
3.40 Once Upon a Story
3.50 3-2-1 Contact
4.23 The Family-Ness
4.30 The Edison Twins
4.55 W3
5.25 Venchie
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 Seekers (Final)
8.30 Cheers
9.00 The Equalizer
10.00 Dallas
11.00 News
11.05 Strangers (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown
TV2
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.45 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
4.20 Monday Afternoon Movie: Wee Willie Winkie (1937) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 The Facts of Life
7.00 Robin’s Nest (Rpt)
7.30 Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
8.30 Falcon Crest
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 I am Winning… I am!
11.00 Jazz Seen (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown
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Today’s TV: Saturday 30 May 1981
from the NZ Listener
TV One
10.00am What Now
10.25 The Muppet Show (Rpt)
10.55 Don’t Ask Me
11.20 Pot Black
11.45 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee: Dakota (1945) (B&W)
1.25 Sport on One
Includes football (World Cup qualifying - NZ v Taiwan; live from Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland), motorsport (Formula 1 - Brazilian Grand Prix; highlights), racing from Ellerslie (four races - Great Northern Hurdles, Carbine Stakes, Members’ Handicap and Herne Bay Handicap) and World Lumberjack Championships
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Ray Woolf
8.00 Taxi
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
11.00 Trapper John MD
11.55 News
12.00am Closedown
TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 Family (Rpt)
1.50 Saturday Afternoon Movie: Lady Godiva (1956)
3.35 Animals, Animals, Animals (Rpt)
3.55 Chico and the Man (Final)
4.20 The Great International Circus Spectacular (Part 1)
5.10 The Brothers (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.15 Sports Review
6.30 Laverne and Shirley
6.50 I Like That One: Two
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 Just Jazz
8.30 Rings on Their Fingers
9.00 Parkinson in Australia
10.10 News
10.25 World Cinema: Nasty Habits (1976)
11.55 Closedown
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Hello, Paddy do you have any listings on Australian medical series RPA first broadcast in NZ?
@Sheldon_Betteridge Yes - I have the listings for both TV One and TV2 (now TVNZ 1 & 2 respectively) on Monday 15 July 1996. These include the premiere of an Australian fly-on-the-wall series called RPA.
At the same time, a new, local drama series - known as City Life - made its debut.
It followed a tight-knit group of apartment-dwelling twenty-somethings (lawyers, bartenders, drug dealers, art dealers, et al) on the emotional merry-go-round of urban living.
Created by James Griffin, City Life was an effort to create popular drama relevant to contemporary Auckland city life and to appeal to a Gen X demographic - to inject Melrose Place into Mt Eden. A bevy of Kiwi acting talent drank, dramatised and prevaricated to a soundtrack of contemporary NZ pop.
Initially, City Life aired on TV2 at 7.30pm on Monday nights. By the start of September, TVNZ moved the series to a later timeslot (9.30pm) on Tuesday nights and the US sitcoms Ned and Stacey and Almost Perfect filled the Monday 7.30-8.30pm slot because, when it came to family viewing until 8.30pm, the content was deemed too raunchy and risqué for the series’ former timeslot.
An excerpt from the first episode of City Life is available to watch via NZ On Screen.
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No too bad, by January 1997 RPA was shown on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) then Prime TV picked it up in 2002 as part of Kerry Packer’s PBL that had brought a stake on Prime Television NZ that included RPA, then in 2011 RPA returned to TVNZ where it returned to a original network on TV One (now TVNZ 1) and the revived season of RPA is also coming to TVNZ 1 as well starting Thursday June 15 at 7.30pm
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Hey @PaddyTePou would you happen to know if the Pauline Cooper episodes of “You and Me” on TV3 were repeated past 1993?
I don’t know - if only Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision held videotape copies of You and Me (Pauline Cooper era) before they were digitised…
Today’s TV: Tuesday 5 June 1990
from the NZ Listener
TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.35 Cockleshell Bay (G)
10.45 Body Talk (G)
10.50 Doctor Snuggles (Rpt, G)
10.55 The Shoe People (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Onedin Line (Rpt, PGR)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.15 Film on One: The Company She Keeps (1950) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.00 Fortunes of War (Part 6) (Rpt, AO)
3.00 Knots Landing (PGR)
4.00 Designing Women (G)
4.30 227 (G)
4.50 Emmerdale Farm (G)
5.20 North and South Island Programmes
NORTH
5.20 Te Karere
5.30 M-A-S-H (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 (G)
7.30 Holiday (G)
8.00 The Good Life (Rpt, G)
8.30 Tuesday Documentary - The Noriega Connection
9.30 Executive Stress (Rpt, G)
10.00 One Network News
10.30 One World of Sport - Goodyear Sports Action
Includes Aussie rules (AFL 1990), motorsport (World Superbikes - from Brazil) and netball (Bendon League)
12.30am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt, G)
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 The All New Popeye Show (Rpt, G)
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 Flash Gordon (Rpt, G)
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Raccoons (G)
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 The Merrie Melodies Show (Rpt, G)
9.00 Bouli (G)
9.05 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
10.05 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Rpt, PGR)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young an the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Webster (G)
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.50 Wisdom of the Gnomes (G)
3.15 The Smoggies (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 The Chipmunks (G)
4.20 Wildtrack (G)
5.00 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date (G)
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode) (G)
7.30 Cheers (G)
8.00 Night Court (PGR)
8.30 China Beach (PGR)
9.30 Wiseguy (AO)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Friday the 13th: The Series (AO)
11.35 Alexei Sayle’s Stuff (AO)
12.15am Closedown
TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
1.30 Trial by Jury (PGR)
2.00 The Young and the Restless (PGR)
2.30 Another World (PGR)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 Mickey Mouse Club (G)
4.00 DuckTales (G)
4.30 Saber Rider (Rpt, G)
5.00 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
5.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Rpt, G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Family Feud (G)
7.30 Sidekicks (G)
8.00 Hey Dad…! (PGR)
8.30 Crime Story (AO)
9.30 Hunter (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Diamonds (AO)
12.00am Closedown
Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newsday
7.00 CNN International Hour
8.00 Newsday
8.30 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
9.00 Newswatch
9.30 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
2.00 CNN Evening News
3.00 Moneyline
3.30 CNN Sports Tonight
4.00 Newsnight
5.00 Showbiz Today
5.30 Newsnight Update
6.30 Sports Latenight
7.00 News Overnight
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.00 Larry King Overnight
9.00 Crossfire
9.30 Earlybird News
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Business Day
12.00am Daybreak
1.00 CNN Morning News
2.00 World Day
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 Newshour
5.00 Sonya Live in LA (Continues to 6am)
Sky Sport
Noon Bodies in Motion
12.25 Bodyshaping
1.00 Basketball
NCAA - Georgia Tech v Louisville
2.00 Golf
Greater Greensboro Open
3.00 Motorsport
NASCAR Winston Cup - Winston 600 (round six)
4.30 Supercross
5.00 Boxing
Superbouts - Ali v Norton (1)
6.00 Aussie Rules
AFL 1990 highlights
7.00 Golf
Volvo PGA Championships - from the West Course at Wentworth, UK
8.00 The Rise of German Tennis
9.00 Boxing
Top Rank Boxing - Elvis Perez v Charles Murray
10.00 Basketball
NCAA - Oklahoma v Arizona
12.05am Closedown
Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth (GY)
12.30 Loving (G)
1.00 The Beachcombers (G)
1.30 Wild World of Animals (G)
2.00 The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) (G)
4.00 The Ryan White Story (1989) (G)
6.00 Time Bandits (1981) (G)
8.00 Nightflyers (1987) (GY)
10.00 The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (GY)
11.47 Closedown
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Today’s TV: Wednesday 6 June 1984
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child
Noon News
12.05 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 Chic Chat (Rpt)
3.25 After School, including (all times approx):
3.30 Pinocchio
3.35 Follyfoot (Rpt)
4.05 3-2-1 Contact
4.35 Star Fleet
5.00 Circus
5.30 It’s Academic
Programme ends at 6pm - except for East Coast viewers, see below
5.55 Te Karere (East Coast viewers only)
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 One Day at a Time
8.00 A Big Country - The Kiwis (Final)
8.35 Wednesday Night at the Movies: The Longest Yard (1974)
10.50 News
10.55 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Fantasy Island
5.15 RTR Video Releases
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere
On TV2 everywhere - except for East Coast viewers (TV One)
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans (Double episode)
7.30 Showtime - That’s Country
8.30 Hardcastle and McCormick
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Jemima Shore Investigates
11.00 The Untouchables (B&W) (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown
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