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Extra: Tuesday 19 May 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.25am Teletext in Vision
10.40 Kilroy (PGR)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News Tonight
1.00 Film on One - Rascal Dizzle (1950) (B&W) (G)
2.35 Fresh Fields (Rpt, PGR)
3.05 Nonni and Manni (Part 5) (Rpt, G)
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 A Country Practice (G)
8.30 Crimewatch (YouTube link below)

9.30 One Foot in the Grave (AO)
10.00 French Fields (G)
10.30 Tonight (News)
11.00 Crimewatch Update
11.05 Matlock (PGR)
12.10am Closedown

Channel 2
6.20am Care Bears (Rpt, G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin from TV One
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 (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 (PGR)
2.00 A Different World (G)
2.30 Jase TV, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Thomas the Tank Engine (G)
3.05 Postman Pat (Rpt, G)
3.25 Towser (Rpt, 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 Simpsons (G)
8.00 Cheers (G)
8.30 More Issues (AO)
9.30 Rescue 911 (G)
10.30 Studs (aka “Late Night Studs”) (PGR)
11.00 21 Jump Street (Rpt, PGR)
12.05am Something Is Out There (PGR)
1.10 Closedown

TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
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 The Addams Family Special (Double episode, B&W) (G)
8.30 Fast Forward (AO)
9.30 The Arsenio Hall Show (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.15 Channel 4 Showcase - When Reasons Sleeps (Part 2) (PGR)
12.15am Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - 1992 National High School Dance Team Championships
7.00 NCAA Baseball: The Road to Omaha
7.30 College World Series
8.00 Global Supercard Wrestling
9.00 Scholastic Sports America
9.30 Sports Reporters
10.00 NASCAR Checkered Flag
10.30 Up Close
11.00 German Soccer Weekly
11.30 Beach Volleyball
12.30pm Waterskiing World Tour
1.00 Sky Sport - Horse Racing
Black-eyed Susan - from Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Bodyshaping
3.00 Magic Years in Sport - 1965
3.30 Sky Rugby
Auckland v Wellington
5.00 Snooker Trickshots
5.30 Supercross
AMA Series - from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
6.30 Sky Rugby
Queensland v Waikato - full coverage of Sunday’s match
8.00 Sky Sportsweek
9.00 Tennis
Davis Cup 1992 - Brazil v Italy, round two; highlights
10.00 Italian Football
11.30 UK Rugby Special
12.30am ESPN Direct - The Sunkist Kids
1.00 Basic Training Workout
1.30 Bodyshaping
2.00 US Men’s Pro Ski Tour
3.00 Body by Jake
3.30 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
4.00 Bodies in Motion
4.30 Bodyshaping
5.00 Footlocker Road Race
5.30 Scholastic Sports America (Continues to 6am)

Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including BBC News at 7am & 7pm and TVNZ - One Network News at 8.30pm

Sky Movies
Noon Flic Story (1972) (GY)
2.00 Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983) (GY)
4.00 Techno Police (1982) (G)
6.00 An Unkindness of Ravens (1990) (GA)
8.00 All of Me (1984) (GA)
10.00 The Entity (1983) (R16)
12.05am Second Sight (1989)
1.29 Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report
7.00 Echo Classic Hits (G)
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkings Live
8.30 The Evening Movie - A Fine Madness (1966) (AO)
10.30 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
11.00 Closedown

Crimewatch, a crime prevention programme produced in cooperation with the New Zealand Police, was fronted by Ian Johnstone with Natalie Brunt (1987-88), Carol Hirschfeld (1989-93), Tiana Tofilau (1994) and Mairanga White (1995-96) as successive co-anchors.

Airing once a month, particularly on a Tuesday night at 8.30pm as an example, the programme used crime reconstructions with actors resembling the perpetrators. Viewer participation played a crucial role in solving many of the cases investigated. Following each edition a Crimewatch Update would air, providing a brief report on viewer responses.

Known as ‘an arresting show where viewer calls do make a difference’, Crimewatch ran on TVNZ from 1987 to 1996. The May 1992 edition of Crimewatch is now available to watch on YouTube.

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Crimewatch was, of course, an NZ version of the BBC program of the same name.

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Hi, I remember the lost episodes. It was in 1998. I remember a TV guide article mentioned that a random lady was on the internet one day and found that there were several episodes not shown on original broadcast of season 9. They were broadcast a couple of months after the original shows aired if I recall correctly.

The Cartridge Family
Bart Star
The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
Lisa the Sceptic
Realty Bites
Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (???)*
All Singing, All Dancing
Bart Carny

They showed the eps as double episodes on Tuesday nights from 7:30pm on TV2. I still have the old videotape which I recorded them on. *I don’t have Miracle on Evergreen Terrace on the tape though so it might not have been a lost episode.

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Today’s TV: Sunday 7 January 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 Tennis
1979 Benson & Hedges Open - men’s singles semifinal; live from Stanley Street, Auckland
2.30 Scientists: The Full Face of the Earth
3.10 Primitive Man
4.00 George Hamilton IV
4.25 Open House (Starting today, part 1) (Rpt)
4.40 Vision On
5.10 The Wonderful World of Disney - Hog Wild (Part 2)
6.00 Shoreline (Starting tonight, part 1)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

6.30 News
6.45 The Best of Sunday’s World (Rpt)
7.00 Fish
7.27 Show of the Week - José Feliciano
8.05 News
8.10 The Edwardians (Part 3, final)
9.30 Offerings
9.35 Classic Movie - Woman of the Year (1942) (B&W)
11.25 News and Weather
11.30 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon The Bolshoi Ballet Special
2.30 Sportsworld
Includes woodchopping (live from Stanmore Bay, Whangaparaoa) and drag racing (from Ruapuna)
4.45 Wildlife Cinema
5.10 The Big Valley (Rpt)
6.00 Weekend Edition News
6.10 World Watch
6.30 Child’s Play
7.00 A Big Country
7.30 The Goodies
8.00 Sunday Feature - I Will Fight No More Forever (1975)
9.40 Weekend Edition News
9.50 Sunday Feature - White Heat (1949)
11.40 Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown

New Zealand boasts a vast coastline spanning over 4,800 km. The late John O’Shea and his team at Pacific Films recognised the potential of this extensive country and embarked on a mission to uncover its hidden marvels.

The result was Shoreline, a captivating four-part documentary series that aired at 6pm on TV One (now TVNZ 1) every Sunday evening in January 1979. Filmed in 1978, the series delved into the intriguing lives of the people who inhabit the coastal areas and the enchanting places where the land and sea meet.

The first episode was directed by Gaylene Preston and explored the frenzy over the small settlement of Hokio Beach, outside of Levin; the final voyage of Te Aroha; and the animal sanctuary at Napier’s Marineland. You can watch it via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

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Wow thanks for that @CASMO87!

I do wonder how or why TV2 missed them first time around.

I guess The Cartridge Family might have been not time slot appropriate maybe but I can’t think why they missed the others other than a distribution error from Fox.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 9 January 1991
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.30am Teletext in Vision
9.45 One World of Sport - Cricket
Shell Cup 1990/91 - semifinals; live
6.00pm One Network News
6.30 Survival (G)
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.35 Mini-Series - Mussolini: The Untold Story (Starting tonight, part 1) (AO)
10.30 One Network News
10.40 Mini-Series - Mussolini: The Untold Story (Continued)
11.45 Special Squad (AO)
12.50am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Gumby Adventures (Rpt, G)
7.00 The Flintstones (Rpt, G)
7.30 Space Knights (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.25 Heathcliff (G)
8.55 Wally Gator (Rpt, G)
9.00 Porky Pig (Rpt, G)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 Alison Holst’s Cooking Class (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 That’s Fairly Interesting (Rpt, G)
2.30 The Fruitties (G)
2.50 The Ratties (G)
3.00 Defenders of the Earth (Rpt, G)
3.25 Pepsi RTR Video Hit
Bell Biv Devoe - “Poison”
3.30 The New Adventures of Batman (G)
3.55 Pepsi RTR Video Hit
Deborah Harry - “I Want That Man”
4.00 The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (G)
4.30 Count Duckula (Rpt, G)
5.00 Charles in Charge (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date (G)
6.00 Family Ties (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode) (G)
7.30 Baywatch (PGR)
8.30 The Star Movie - Lucas (1986) (AO)
10.30 Miami Vice (AO)
11.30 Dear John (G)
12.00am Closedown

TV3
Noon Disney Holiday Special - Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956) (Rpt, G)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
2.30 Mighty Mouse and Friends (G)
3.00 Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald (G)
3.30 The Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
4.00 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
4.30 Home and Away (Double episode) (G)
5.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Man About the House (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Wonder Years (Starting tonight) (Rpt, G)
8.00 Infomania (G)
8.30 Crime Story (AO)
9.30 Midnight Caller (Rpt, AO)
10.30 Nightline
10.45 Murphy Brown (G)
11.15 Late Movie - Ping Pong (1986)
1.15am Closedown

Sky Sport
Noon Basketball
NCAA 1990/91 - Mississippi v Mississippi State; full coverage
1.30 Motorsport - Glory Days
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Bodyshaping
3.00 Football
1991 John Hancock Bowl - Illinois Fighting Illini v UCLA Bruins; full coverage
5.00 Motorsport - California Carting
5.30 Bowling - High Rollers
6.30 Motorsport
IMSA GTP 1990 - Camel Grand Prix of Greater San Diego; full coverage
8.00 Top Rank Boxing
Virgil Hill v Mike Peak
9.30 World Cup Figure Skating
10.15 Cart - 1990 Year in Review
10.45 Bodybuilding - US Champs
11.45 Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Battle of the Sexes (1960)
2.00 Trouble in the City of Angels (1988) (R16)
4.00 Circus Vegas (G)
5.30 A Passage to India (1984) (GA)
8.00 After Hours (1985) (GA)
10.00 Showcase International - The Cruel Sea (1972)
An Arabic film with English subtitles
11.50 Hi, Mom! (1970)
1.17am Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
6.00am Newshour
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 Sonya Live
8.00 Newsday
9.00 International Hour
10.00 Newsday
11.00 Early Prime
11.30 Showbiz Today
Noon The World Today
1.00 Moneyline
1.30 Crossfire
2.00 Prime News
3.00 Larry King Live
4.00 CNN Evening News
5.00 Moneyline
5.30 CNN Sports
6.30 Newsnight
7.00 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
7.30 Newsnight Update
8.30 CNN Sports
9.00 Newsnight Update
10.00 Larry King Overnight
11.00 Crossfire
11.30 Early Bird News
12.00am Daybreak
12.30 Business Morning
1.00 Daybreak
1.30 Business Day
2.00 Daybreak
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 World Day
5.00 Daywatch (Continues to 6am)

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Hi.

I think it might have been mentioned in the TV Guide article but I’m sorry I don’t remember what the reason was.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 10 January 1996 (Part 1 - free-to-air channels and regional stations)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.25 Time Out - Film ‘95
7.00 The World Today
7.55 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat of the previous day’s bulletin
8.05 eTV, including:
8.05 7-Up Around the World (Part 3) (Rpt, G)
9.00 Art Meets Science and Spirituality (Part 2)
9.50 UK Today (G)
10.00 One World of Sport - Cricket
1995/96 Shell Cup - final; live
6.00pm One Network News
7.00 New Zealand at War (Rpt)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.05 The Way We Were
8.35 Hamish Macbeth (Part 4) (PGR)
9.40 One Network News
10.00 One World of Sport - Tennis
1996 BellSouth Open - round two; highlights from the ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland
11.00 Te Karere
11.10 Moving Story (Part 2) (PGR)
12.20am Infomercials
1.00 BBC World, including:
1.00 BBC World Headlines
1.15 Panorama
2.00 BBC World News
2.15 World Business Report
2.30 BBC Newshour Asia Pacific
3.25 Time Out - The Clothes Show
4.00 BBC World Headlines
4.05 Timewatch
5.00 BBC World News
5.25 Time Out - Tomorrow’s World (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.10am Pinocchio (Rpt, G)
6.35 Tic Tac Toons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (G)
7.30 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
8.00 Widget (Rpt, G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
10.00 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Santa Barbara (G)
11.30 The Susan Powter Show (Rpt, G)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Ricki Lake (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
3.30 Rugrats (G)
4.00 Taz-Mania (Rpt, G)
4.30 Tiny Toon Adventures (Rpt, G)
4.55 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt, G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Friends (PGR)
8.00 The Single Guy (PGR)
8.30 Wednesday Night Movie - Forever Young (1992) (PGR)
10.35 Married
 with Children (Rpt, AO)
11.10 Missing Persons (PGR)
12.10am The George Carlin Show
12.45 The John Larroquette Show (AO)
1.15 Infomercials
2.10 Broken Badgers (Rpt, AO)
3.10 Getting By (G)
3.40 The Building (G)
4.10 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.35 You Asked for It (Rpt, G)
5.10 All in the Family (Rpt, G)
5.40 Kenneth Copeland (G) (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.30am The Muppet Show Command Performances (G)
7.00 You and Me (G)
7.25 Garfield and Friends (G)
7.55 My Three Sons (G)
8.30 Green Acres (G)
9.00 Infomercial
9.30 The Andy Griffith Show (G)
10.00 Treasures Parent Time (G)
10.05 You and Me (G)
10.30 Infomercial
11.05 General Hospital (PGR)
Noon The Gordon Elliott Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.00 The Love Boat (G)
3.00 What’s Cooking? (G)
3.30 Treasures Parent Time (G)
3.35 Disney Adventure Afternoon, including:
3.35 DuckTales (G)
4.00 TaleSpin (G)
4.30 Aladdin (G)
5.00 Boy Meets World (G)
5.30 Family Matters (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Noel’s House Party (G)
7.30 Against the Odds (Starting tonight, part 1) (PGR)
8.00 Comedy Central (PGR)
8.30 3 Special - Just for Laughs (AO)
10.30 Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century (AO)
11.00 Reasonable Doubts (AO)
12.00am Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, Southern
11.30am TV Shopping
3.00pm BBC World News
3.25 BBC Newsnight
4.00 BBC World News
4.25 World Business Report
5.00 BBC World News
5.25 Top Gear
6.00 Next Step (G)
6.30 Body Atlas: Sex (G)
7.00 BBC News Day
8.00 Stopwatch (G)
8.30 Classic Movie - Around the World in 80 Days (1956) (Rpt, G)
11.25 BBC World News
11.50 (approx) Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
4.00pm LV Martin Home Shopping Hour (G)
5.00 Austin City Limits (G)
5.30 Susan Sells (G)
6.00 Next Step (G)
6.30 Body Atlas: Sex (G)
7.00 The Best of George Balani (G)
8.00 Stopwatch (G)
8.30 Classic Movie - Around the World in 80 Days (1956) (Rpt, G)
11.25 Stopwatch (G)
11.55 Closedown

CRY Television, Christchurch
11.00am Green Zone (Rpt)
1.00 Yellow Zone (Rpt)
4.00 Green Zone
6.00 Yellow Zone
9.00 Indigo Zone
12.00am Closedown

MAX: The Music Channel, Auckland
4.00pm The Beat
4.30 The Bluebird Word Viewer Vote
5.00 McDonald’s Most Wanted Requests
5.30 Libra Line
6.00 The Serious Fun Show, including:
6.10 TDK Backtrax
7.00 Singles
7.30 The Compact Disc Report
9.00 The Zone
12.00am Closedown

On the evening of Wednesday 10 January 1996 at 7.30pm, TV3 (now Three) aired its first episode of Against the Odds, a 13-part local documentary series from Greenstone Pictures (now Greenstone TV).

The show, hosted by actor Paul Gittins, showcased the stories of regular New Zealanders who had overcome extraordinary challenges. Greenstone went on to produce a number of documentary and factual programmes, including Epitaph for TVNZ.

Following Against the Odds at 8pm was Comedy Central, a local sketch comedy series with such Kiwi comedians as Willy de Wit, Dean Butler, Paul Yates, Emma Lange and Mike King. The series, which poked fun at the world of television with no relation to the US cable channel of the same name, was produced by Phoenix Television (the makers of Pulp Comedy) premiered with an hour-long episode on Monday 8 January 1996 at 8.30pm.

More to come in Part 2.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 10 January 1996 (Part 2 - Sky channels; delayed from yesterday)
from the NZ Listener

Sky Sport
7.00am ESPN Direct - Sports Almanac: Seasons in the Sun
7.30 Gymnastics
1995 Rock ‘n’ Roll Challenge
8.30 Professional Boxing
10.00 Bodies in Motion
10.30 Fitness Beach
11.00 Sky Sport - Tennis
1996 BellSouth Open - live from the ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland
6.10pm Football
English Premier League 1995/96 - highlights
7.10 Motorsport
AMA Supercross Series - from Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8.00 Herald Card Deaker Profiles
8.30 Cricket
1995/96 Shell Cup - final; highlights
9.30 Tennis
1996 BellSouth Open - “Match of the Day”
11.00 Bodybuilding
1995 Ms Olympia
12.30am ESPN Direct - NBA Action
1.00 Basketball
NBA 1995/96 - Houston Rockets v San Antonio Spurs; full coverage
3.30 Snooker
4.30 Sports Almanac: A Simple Twist of Fate
5.00 Table Tennis
1996 Asia Cup - quarterfinals; full coverage (Continues to 6.30am)

HBO
8.00am Class of ‘61 (1993) (GA)
9.45 Flight of the Doves (1971) (G)
11.25 Sherlock Holmes Returns (1994) (GY)
1.05pm Mot (1994)
1.30 Fade to Black (1993) (GY)
3.00 MTV Music - Arrested Development: Unplugged (G)
4.00 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1991) (G)
5.00 Singles (1992) (GA)
6.45 Just Like a Woman (1992) (GA)
8.30 Big Wednesday - Ladyhawke (1985)
10.35 Au Pair (1991) (R13)
12.10am Sirens (1994) (RP16)
1.45 Closedown

CNN (incomplete)
7.00am BBC News (6pm bulletin)
8.00 World Business Today
9.30 World Report
11.00 World Business Today
11.30 World Sport
Noon World View
1.30 Moneyline
2.30 Crossfire
3.00 Larry King Live
4.30 Showbiz Today
5.30 Inside Politics
7.00 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
7.30 Larry King
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
A delayed broadcast of TVNZ’s 6pm bulletin
9.30 Crossfire
11.30 World Report
12.00am Business Day
1.00 World News Asia
1.30 World Sport
2.30 World News Asia
3.00 Larry King
4.30 World Sport
5.30 Business Asia

Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continued)
10.00 The George & Alana Show
11.00 Vanessa
11.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Noon Coronation Street
12.30 Brookside
1.00 Love Connection
1.30 Supermarket Sweep
2.00 Robin’s Nest
2.30 Prisoner (aka “Prisoner: Cell Block H”)
3.00 Tempestt
4.00 NBA Action
4.30 Basketball
NBA 1995/96 - Houston Rockets v San Antonio Spurs; live
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 ENG
8.30 Side Effects
9.30 Orange at the Movies - Livin’ Large (1991) (GA)
11.05 The Russ Abbot Show
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 10am)

Discovery/Trackside
6.00am A World Away
7.00 Beyond 2000
8.00 Jack Thompson Down Under
9.00 A World Away
10.00 Wildlife Chronicles
10.30 In Care of Nature
11.00 Ancient Warriors
11.30 Trackside Channel - Bowling (Free to air)
National Insurance Bowls 1996 - from Howick
Noon Trackside (Free to air)
Live racing from Reefton, Manawatu Showgrounds (greyhounds) and Australia, plus:
12.25 Speedweek
1.25 World Football Report
6.45 Final race from Manawatu
7.00 A World Away
8.00 Beyond 2000
9.00 Wild Sanctuaries
9.30 Profiles of Nature
10.00 Millennium
11.00 Paleoworld
11.30 Amazing Space
12.00am Dreams of Flight
12.30 X-Planes
1.00 Invention
1.30 Next Step
2.00 Wings
3.00 Beyond 2000
4.00 Zoo Life with Jack Hanna
5.00 Jack Thompson Down Under (Continues to 6am)

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Today’s TV: Monday 11 January 1988
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.30am Teletext in Vision
10.45 Aerobics Oz Style
11.10 Play School (Rpt)
11.35 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Whodunnit? (Rpt)
12.45 The Odd Couple (Rpt)
1.10 Alias Smith and Jones (Rpt)
2.05 Coronation Street (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Friday’s programme
2.30 Bewitched (Rpt)
3.00 The World of Survival
3.30 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
4.05 The Great Buffalo Saga
5.00 Man About the House (Rpt)
5.30 Emmerdale Farm
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
7.00 World Alive: Spain (Part 3)
7.30 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
8.30 Mini-Series - A Woman of Substance (Starting tonight, part 1) (Rpt)
10.25 News
10.40 It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
11.10 Summer Movie - The Babysitter (1980)
1.05am Closedown

Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Love Connection
12.30 That’s Incredible! (Rpt)
1.15 The Brothers (Rpt)
2.05 The Monday Matinee - Boomerang (1947) (B&W)
3.35 The Electric Company (Rpt)
4.00 The Lost Islands (Rpt)
4.30 Blake’s 7 (Rpt)
5.30 Diff’rent Strokes (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 The Facts of Life
7.00 ALF (Rpt)
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Designing Women
8.30 The Cosby Show (Rpt)
9.00 Monday Night Movie - Taps (1981)
11.35 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Friday 12 January 1973
from The Press

NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 The Beverly Hillbillies
2.27 The Swingles Sing
2.52 Sportscene
Tennis (1973 Benson & Hedges Open) - live from Stanley Street, Auckland
5.13 The Little Rascals
5.30 The Flaxton Boys
5.55 Headline News and Weather
5.59 Is This Your Career? (Final) (Rpt)
6.09 The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
6.28 Guess What I Did Today?
6.50 Sports Magazine / Tennis
7.00 Network News
7.15 Weather / Regional News
7.28 The Bill Cosby Show
7.53 Gunsmoke
8.42 Young Hawaii in Sight and Sound
9.11 Newsbrief
9.13 Friday Movie - The Tunnel of Love (1958)
10.48 Atlanta: A New Kind of City
11.03 Late News and Weather
11.09 Mannix
Followed by Closedown

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 14 January 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Teletext in Vision
10.15 One World of Sport - Cricket
1991/92 Shell Cup - final; live
6.00pm One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 A Country Practice (G)
8.35 Mini-Series - People Like Us (Part 2, final) (AO)
10.35 One Network News
10.45 Mini-Series - Smiley’s People (Part 3, final) (Rpt, AO)
12.55am Closedown

Channel 2
6.00am Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table (G)
6.30 The Bullwinkle Show (G)
7.00 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (Rpt, G)
7.25 Jem (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.30 Breezly and Sneezly (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 The Kidsongs TV Show (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Who’s the Boss? (Rpt, G)
2.30 ALF (Rpt, G)
2.55 Brum (G)
3.05 Puddle Lane (Rpt, G)
3.20 Yippee, Yappee & Yahooey (Rpt, G)
3.30 Towser (Rpt, G)
3.35 Babar (G)
4.00 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
4.30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show (G)
6.00 Studs (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Cheers (Rpt, G)
8.00 Wings (G)
8.30 Open All Hours (Rpt, PGR)
9.05 The New Statesman: Who Shot Alan B’Stard? (Rpt, AO)
10.25 Studs (aka “Late Night Studs”) (PGR)
10.55 Wiseguy (Rpt, AO)
11.55 The New Dragnet (aka “Dragnet Today”) (G)
12.25am Movie - Taps (1981) (AO)
2.40 Mini-Series - Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (Part 2) (AO)
3.35 Movie - Meatballs Part II (1984) (AO)
5.05 A-Z Video Gold (G) (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.25am EBS, including:
6.25 Aunties’ Alphabet (Rpt, G)
6.30 Pinocchio (Rpt, G)
7.00 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (Rpt, G)
7.30 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
8.00 Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
8.30 Closedown
Noon The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
12.30 Generations (PGR)
1.00 NBC Nightly News
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, G)
3.30 Super Mario Bros (Rpt, G)
4.00 Dennis the Menace (Rpt, G)
4.30 Double Dare (G)
5.00 Perfect Match (Rpt, G)
5.30 Hey Dad
! (Rpt, G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
7.30 Tropical Heat (PGR)
8.30 3 Mini-Series - Favourite Son (Part 3, final) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
10.45 Babes (PGR)
11.15 Diamonds (Rpt, PGR)
12.15am Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Bodies in Motion
6.30 Bodyshaping
7.00 Top Rank Boxing
9.00 Ski Film - Skiing Extreme Three
9.30 Glory Days
10.00 Global Supercard Wrestling
11.00 NCAA Today
11.30 Snowboarding - Vision Pro in the Snow
Noon Up Close
12.30 Clay Target Shooting Game
1.00 Sky Sport - Tennis
1992 Australian Open - day three; live from the National Tennis Centre, Melbourne
5.00 Motorsport - 1991 IHRA Highlights
6.00 Spanish Football
7.00 Basketball
NBA 1991/92 - Portland Trail Blazers v Cleveland Cavaliers; full coverage
8.30 Yachting - Sydney to Hobart
9.30 Tennis
1992 Australian Open - day three; live from the National Tennis Centre, Melbourne
12.00am ESPN Direct - Basketball
NBA 1991/92 - Portland Trail Blazers v Cleveland Cavaliers; full coverage
2.30 The Sunkist Kids
3.00 Basic Training Workout
3.30 Bodyshaping
4.00 Skiing - Mogul Tour
5.00 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
5.30 Body by Jake (Continues to 6am)

Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, plus
BBC News at 7am & 7pm
TVNZ - One Network News at 8.30pm (a repeat of TVNZ’s 6pm bulletin)

Sky Movies
Noon Nostalgia at Noon - The Deadly Affair (1967) (GY)
2.00 Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) (GY)
3.35 Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) (GY)
5.05 A Tale of Two Cities (1984) (G)
6.30 Missing Link (1988) (R13)
8.05 When Harry Met Sally (1989) (GA)
10.00 Showcase International - Mirror (1974) (GA)
A Russian/Spanish film with English subtitles
11.45 A Little Sex (1982) (R13)
1.16am Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 What Would You Do?
6.30 The Gemini Factor (G)
7.00 CTV Classic Hits (G)
7.30 The Bush Tucker Man (G)
8.00 First Report (News) (Rpt)
8.30 The Evening Movie - Waterhole No 3 (1967) (PGR)
10.15 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
10.45 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Monday 16 January 1984
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon Father Murphy (Rpt)
12.55 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt)
1.20 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (Rpt)
2.10 Play Away (Rpt)
2.40 Sesame Street (Rpt)
3.35 Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald (Rpt)
3.55 What Now (Rpt)
4.25 Born to the Wind (Part 2) (Rpt)
5.15 The World of Sport (Rpt)
5.30 Viewfinder Review (Rpt)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News
7.00 Father Charlie (Part 3)
7.30 I Can Jump Puddles (Part 4)
8.25 Simon and Simon
9.20 Open All Hours (Rpt)
9.55 Roots: The Next Generation (Part 4)
11.45 News
11.50 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Nurse (Rpt)
3.20 Images (Rpt)
3.55 Summer Cinema - Savage Wilderness (1956) (Rpt)
5.20 Mork & Mindy (Rpt)
5.50 News
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Love Boat
7.20 The Dukes of Hazzard (Rpt)
8.25 The Spoils of War (Part 3)
9.25 News
9.35 The Home Front (Part 6, final)
10.35 Soap (Rpt)
11.05 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Monday 19 January 1976
from the NZ Listener

TV One
12.30pm Lunchbox - Take Kerr
12.35 The Young and the Restless
1.00 News
1.05 The French Way
1.35 Days of Our Lives
1.55 Julia
2.20 Crossroads
2.40 Play School
3.10 Sesame Street
4.10 Yak
4.25 The Magic Pencil
4.35 The Tomorrow People
5.00 Hong Kong Phooey (Final)
5.20 The Bobby Goldsboro Show (B&W)
5.40 Apple’s Way
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
8.00 Warship
8.50 Pot Black
9.15 News
9.25 World in Action - The Rise and Fall of the CIA
9.50 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
10.40 Late Movie - Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)
12.15am News and Weather
12.20 Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm The High Chaparral (Rpt)
1.50 Search for Tomorrow
2.15 The Girl with Something Extra
2.40 Dinah!
3.10 Romper Room
4.00 Rainbow
4.20 Josie and the Pussycats (Rpt)
4.40 Timeslip (Rpt) (B&W)
5.05 The Cisco Kid
5.35 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (B&W)
6.00 News - Six O’Clock Report
6.15 Beside the Seaside
6.45 My Three Sons
7.15 The Magician
8.10 Now Look Here (Final)
8.45 Softly, Softly: Task Force
10.00 Late News
10.15 Emergency!
11.10 The Sixth Sense
12.05am (approx) Closedown

All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified.

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Random question. Was TV2 across all of NZ when it first launched, or was it just in Auckland?

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Started in Auckland and Christchurch, expanded to Wellington by late 1975 and into Dunedin by 1976.
So at the time the schedule was published, TV2 was airing in the Upper North Island, Wellington and Christchurch.

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Thanks

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Today’s TV: Monday 24 January 1983
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon Bewitched (Rpt)
12.25 Lunchtime Movie - Way of a Gaucho (1952) (Rpt)
2.00 The English Garden (Part 4) (Rpt)
2.30 The Learning Tree (Rpt)2
2.40 The Animates and Personates
2.45 Play Away
3.15 Beany and Cecil (Rpt)
3.35 Nobody’s House (Rpt)
4.00 Fish Tales (Rpt)
4.15 The Famous Five (Rpt)
4.40 Elephant Boy (Rpt)
5.05 Matt and Jenny (Final)
5.30 Wildtrack (Rpt)
6.00 Alice
6.30 News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 3) (Rpt)
8.05 Sea Power (Part 4)
8.40 Shannon
9.40 Rings on Their Fingers (Part 3)
10.15 Summertime Movie - The Busy Body (1966) (Rpt)
11.55 News
12.00am The Late Movie - The Long Hot Summer (1958) (Rpt)
1.55 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Charlie’s Angels (Rpt)
3.25 Summer Cinema - Just Imagine (1930) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.15 Mork & Mindy (Rpt)
5.50 News
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.25 The Dukes of Hazzard (Rpt)
7.25 Love, Sidney (Final)
7.55 The Monday Movie - Leave Yesterday Behind (1978) (Rpt)
9.40 News
9.55 Pot Black ‘82
10.50 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Friday 25 January 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
1.00pm Scene Set
1.05 The Second Hundred Years (Rpt, C)
1.30 Commonwealth Games (C)
Day one, afternoon session - includes athletics (pentathlon, hammerthrow and 10,000m finals), swimming and badminton)
1.50 Headline News and Weather (C)
1.55 Commonwealth Games (Continued) (C)
5.00 Larry the Lamb (C)
5.16 Lidsville (Rpt, C)
5.38 Headline News (C)
5.40 The Adventures of Superman (C)
6.05 Circus (Final) (C)
6.30 Commonwealth Games
Highlights of day one, plus results and reports on shooting and bowls
7.00 Network News
7.20 Regional Weather and News
7.30 Country Road
8.00 Commonwealth Games (C)
Day one, evening session - includes swimming (first medals decided), weightlifting (flyweight and bantamweight finals) and badminton
10.00 Newsbrief (C)
10.02 The Mod Squad (C)
10.52 Late News and Weather (C)
10.58 Today at the Games (C)
Highlights of day one
Followed by Closedown

(C) = In colour

On this day (25 January) in 1974, the inaugural day of the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch was shown live on the NZBC television network.

Coverage was uninterrupted from 1.30pm to 5pm (except for a brief news and weather update at 1.50pm) and was once again shown from 8pm to 10pm. Additionally, highlights were shown at 6.30pm and 10.58pm, following a six-minute break for the late news and weather (at 10.52pm).

The opening ceremony at Queen Elizabeth II Park had already been broadcast in colour the previous day at 1.55pm, marking a significant milestone for New Zealand television as colour television was introduced at this event.

However, due to the NZBC’s limited colour facilities, only athletics, swimming and boxing were able to be broadcast in colour.

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Today’s TV: Friday 26 January 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.35am Teletext in Vision
8.50 Commonwealth Games
Day two - includes bowls (men’s and women’s singles, women’s pairs), badminton, swimming (men’s 100m butterfly, women’s 200m breaststroke, women’s 200m butterfly, women’s 200m freestyle, men’s 400m individual medley, men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay), diving (men’s and women’s 1m springboard final), gymnastics (women’s artistic team championship) and boxing
6.00pm One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Commonwealth Games (Continued)
Day two - includes weightlifting (67.5kg class), gymnastics (women’s artistic team championship) and boxing
9.00 Games Highlights
Highlights of day two
9.30 One Network News
9.45 Commonwealth Games (Continued)
Day two - includes boxing, badminton and shooting (summary)
11.30 Capstick’s Law (Starting tonight, part 1) (AO)
12.30am French & Saunders (AO)
1.00 Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Telebugs (Rpt, G)
6.35 Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series (G)
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 Dinky Dog (Rpt, G)
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 Bluffers (G)
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Road Runner Show (G)
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 Ragdolly Anna (G)
8.45 Sesame Street (G)
9.45 Noozles (G)
10.10 Hi-de-Hi! (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
12.55 Days of Our Lives
1.50 Dreams (G)
2.20 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.45 Mr Hiccup (G)
2.50 Babar (G)
3.15 The Electric Company (G)
3.45 Star Trek (Rpt, G)
4.35 Dr Who - The Time of the Rani (Part 4) (Rpt, 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 Richmond Hill (G)
8.30 Beauty and the Beast (G)
9.30 Baby Boom (PGR)
10.00 Married
 with Children (PGR)
10.35 Newsbreak
10.40 Unsolved Mysteries (AO)
11.40 The Friday Frights - The Wicker Man (1973) (Rpt, AO)
1.15am Closedown

TV3
7.00am Early Bird Show
Includes Garfield and Friends, DuckTales, Dennis the Menace and News Updates every half hour
9.00 Dinosaucers (G)
9.30 Welcome Back Kotter (G)
10.00 Chico and the Man (G)
10.30 Check It Out! (G)
11.00 Holiday World (Double episode) (G)
Noon Those Amazing Animals (G)
1.00 3 Sport - Summer of Tennis
1990 Australian Open - semifinals, day two; live from Melbourne
6.00 3 National News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 AfterMASH (G)
7.30 Friday Night at the Movies - Spider-Man (1977)
9.30 The World’s Greatest Stunts
10.30 The Benny Hill Show (AO)
11.00 3 Sport - Summer of Tennis
1990 Australian Open - semifinals, day two; live from Melbourne (includes highlights of the day’s play)
12.00am TJ Hooker (AO)
1.00 Closedown

In 1989 Granada Television produced Capstick’s Law, a six-part drama focused on a solicitors’ firm in the 1950s. It was shown on ITV and premiered on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 11.30pm on the evening of Friday 26 January 1990 - right after TVNZ’s coverage of day two of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.

In a late amendment by TVNZ the US documentary series, Unsolved Mysteries, was moved from TV One, as initially published in the NZ Listener, to Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) while WWF Superstars of Wrestling was rescheduled from Friday to Saturday nights at around 10.30pm (replacing Friday the 13th: The Series).

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