This weekend’s TV: 18-20 October 1991 (Free-to-air channels only)
from the NZ Listener
Friday 18 October 1991
TV One
9.45am Teletext in Vision
10.00 Classics on One - Grandma’s Boy / A Sailor-Made Man (1922) (B&W, silent) (G)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News Tonight
1.00 Film on One - Lady Mobster (1988) (AO)
2.50 Designing Women (G)
3.15 The Rockford Files (PGR)
4.15 Kate & Allie (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Wheel of Fortune (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 Bread (PGR)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Mini-Series - Scruples (Part 2) (Rpt, PGR)
12.40am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News
A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.25 Wildtrack (G)
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Going Places (Starting today) (G)
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Maya the Bee (G)
3.30 The Muppet Babies (G)
3.55 Wildtrack (Rpt, G)
4.00 The Adventures of the Little Mermaid (G)
4.30 Peter Pan and the Pirates (G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show (G)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
6.30 Candid Camera (G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Totally Hidden Video (G)
8.00 Sledge Hammer! (Rpt, PGR)
8.30 Married… with Children (PGR)
9.00 ‘Allo ‘Allo! (PGR)
9.35 Cops (AO)
10.05 The Professionals (Rpt, AO)
11.15 Something for the Weekend (Final) (PGR)
11.50 Friday Late Movie - Stone Cold Dead (1980) (Rpt, AO)
1.50am Closedown
TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 Generations (PGR)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.30 Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Rpt, G)
4.00 Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald (Rpt, G)
4.30 Double Dare (G)
5.00 Voltron (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
7.30 TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes (G)
8.30 Friday Night at the Movies - Assault and Matrimony (1987) (Rpt)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Late Movie - Turtle Diary (1986) (Rpt, PGR)
1.05am Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
4.45pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 Campbell’s Cars (G)
7.00 CTV Racing Preview
7.30 Jim Hopkins Live
8.00 First Report (News) (Rpt)
8.30 The Evening Movie - A Good Sport (1984) (G)
10.20 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
11.05 Closedown
Saturday 19 October 1991
TV One
10.15am Teletext in Vision
10.30 A Dog’s Show (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Boat Show (Starting today) (G)
11.30 The Bank of New Zealand Farmer (Starting today) (G)
12.05pm Gillette World Sport Special (G)
12.30 ABC World News Tonight
1.00 We Are Seven (Part 6, final) (G)
2.00 The Brothers (Rpt, G)
3.00 Beyond 2000 (Rpt, G)
4.00 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (Rpt, G)
4.35 Witness to Survival (G)
5.00 One World of Sport - Rugby World Cup Action Replay
Quarterfinals preview
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Wild South (Rpt, G)
7.00 One World of Sport - Horse Racing
1991 Caulfield Cup - live from Melbourne
7.05 Only Fools and Horses (Final) (PGR)
8.10 Mastermind (G)
8.40 The Saturday Mystery Movie - BL Striker: Auntie Sue (1989) (AO)
10.30 Mini-Series: Scruples (Part 3, final) (Rpt, PGR)
12.20am One World of Sport - Rugby World Cup 1991
Quarterfinals one and two - live from Murrayfield (QF1) and Paris (QF2)
4.45 Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Breakfast Club, including:
6.35 Houndcats (Rpt, G)
7.00 Alvin and the Chipmunks (Final) (Rpt, G)
7.30 Commander Crumbcake (G)
8.00 What Now, including (all times approx):
8.05 Trapdoor
8.15 Real Stories
8.30 The Pinky Starquest
9.00 The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
9.15 Mirinda Makes It Happen Mystery Challenge
9.50 Grapevine
10.00 Pepsi RTR Top 40
11.00 LIFE 91 (G)
11.30 Star Trek (Rpt, G)
12.35pm Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt, G)
1.05 The Dukes of Hazzard (Final) (G)
2.00 Saturday Cinema - Side by Side (1988) (Rpt, G)
4.00 Zorro (G)
4.30 Betty’s Bunch (Part 4) (Rpt, G)
5.00 Growing Pains (Starting today) (G)
5.30 Movie Magic: The Magic of Special Effects (G)
6.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown (G)
6.30 It’ll Be Alright on the Night (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Full House (G)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies - SpaceCamp (1986) (G)
10.35 Hey Hey It’s Saturday (G)
12.35am 21 Jump Street (Rpt, PGR)
1.50 Closedown
TV3
6.30am Raggedy Ann and Andy (G)
7.00 EBS (G), including (all times approx):
7.00 Super Mario Bros
7.30 Annabel’s Kitchen (with Annabel Langbein)
7.45 Garfield
7.50 Hollywood Gossip (with David Hartnell)
8.30 The Real Ghostbusters
9.00 Ya Hoo (G)
Includes Beetlejuice, Saved by the Bell and My Secret Identity
11.00 What a Dummy (G)
11.30 Infocus (G)
Noon 3 Mini-Series - Centennial (Part 8) (PGR)
2.00 Madhur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery (G)
2.30 3 Sport - Horse Racing
Lindauer Guineas Day - live from Ellerslie
3.30 Best of British (G)
4.00 Heroes (G)
4.30 The Last Frontier (G)
5.00 The Wonderful World of Disney - Kit Carson and the Mountain Men (Part 2, final) (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.35 Family Night at the Movies - Bushfire Moon (1985) (G)
9.35 Hull High (Final) (PGR)
10.30 Coca-Cola TVFM: Rocks
12.00am The Midnight Hour - Tales from the Darkside (AO)
12.30 The Midnight Hour - Monsters (AO)
1.00 Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
10.00am Campbell’s Cars (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
11.00 CTV Race Day
Includes live racing from Napier and Riccarton
6.00pm Just Good Friends (PGR)
6.30 Blake’s 7 (G)
7.30 Hopkins’ Half Hour: The Best of Jim Hopkins
8.00 The Evening Movie - Love Story (1970) (G)
9.50 Soap (Double episode) (AO)
10.45 Closedown
Sunday 20 October 1991
TV One
7.55am Teletext in Vision
8.10 Beneath the Penetrating Gaze
This programme marks Unicef Annual Appeal Week
8.30 Tagata Pasifika
9.00 Praise Be
9.30 Discovering Plunket
This programme marks the annual Plunket Appeal on Tuesday 22 Oct 1991
10.00 Marae
Includes Waka Huia, Te Karere and Panui
Noon Sunday
1.00 Gunsmoke
2.00 One World of Sport - Yachting (“Cupdate”)
2.15 One World of Sport - Rugby World Cup 1991
Quarterfinals one and two - highlights
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Frontline
7.30 Our World - The Taming of the Ewe (G)
8.35 Sunday Theatre - Never Come Back (Part 3, final) (AO)
9.30 Pavarotti in the Park (G)
11.30 Aspel & Company (AO)
12.20am One World of Sport - Rugby World Cup 1991
Quarterfinals three and four - live from Dublin (QF3) and Lille (QF4)
4.45 Closedown
Channel 2
6.05am Teletext in Vision
6.20 Well Loved Tales (G)
6.55 Timeless Tales (G)
7.15 The Snorks (Rpt, G)
7.40 The Wizard of Oz (G)
8.00 Inch High, Private Eye (Rpt, G)
8.30 Roger Ramjet (Rpt, G)
8.35 New Kids on the Block (G)
9.00 Pepsi RTR Sounz!
11.05 Wildtrack (G)
A compilation of the week’s episodes
11.30 Dr Who - The Ambassadors of Death (Part 2) (B&W) (Rpt, G)
Noon EastEnders (Double episode) (G)
1.00 Sunday Cinema - Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) (Rpt, PGR)
4.10 The Little Rascals (B&W) (Rpt, G)
4.30 Streetwise (G)
5.00 The Prom (G)
6.00 Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (G)
6.30 The Cosby Show (G)
7.00 Minties New Zealand’s Funniest Home Videos (G)
7.30 The Sunday Premiere Movie - The Last Starfighter (1984) (Rpt, G)
9.30 The Sunday Premiere Movie - The Terminator (1984) (AO)
11.40 The Sunday Horrors - Lifeforce (1985) (Rpt, AO)
1.40am Closedown
TV3
7.00am EBS, including:
7.00 The Wuzzles (G)
7.25 The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show (Rpt, G)
7.50 Dennis the Menace (Rpt, G)
8.10 Superfriends (G)
8.35 You Can’t Do That on TV (G)
9.00 Coca-Cola TVFM: Hits
11.05 Get Smart (Rpt, G)
11.30 Short Sportz (G)
Noon Wynn’s Sport
Includes volleyball, table tennis, international gymnastics and world record attempt
3.00 Movie Matinee - Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952) (G)
5.00 Black Sheep Squadron (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 The World Around Us - Tombs in the Coral (G)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Sunday Night at the Movies - Superman (1978) (Rpt, G)
11.40 Late Movie - Feel the Motion (1989)
1.40am Closedown
Canterbury Television (CTV)
5.00pm CTV Classic Hits (Rpt)
5.30 CTV Top Ten Hits (Rpt)
6.00 Oderings’ Homes and Gardens (Rpt)
6.30 Triumph of the West
7.30 George Balani (G)
8.30 Callan (AO)
9.30 Soap (Double episode) (AO)
10.30 Closedown
