Classic NZ TV Listings

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1859

Today’s TV: Saturday 10 April 1976
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Sport on One
Includes racing preview and “Vintage Rugby” (South Africa v NZ - second test, 1970)
11.00 Of Course You Can Do It
11.30 Animal World
Noon Saturday Matinee - Frontier Gun (1958) (B&W)
1.10 Fairy Stories and Dolls
1.40 News
1.45 Sport on One
Includes live racing from Avondale (the Foley Hemorial Handicap, the Whitbread Stakes, the Robinson Handicap and the Russell Handicap), golf and bowls
5.00 The Beachcombers
5.30 Iron House (Rpt)
6.25 The Wombles
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Space: 1999
8.00 It’s in the Bag
8.30 News
8.35 Movie for Television - The Snoop Sisters (1973)
10.00 Edwards on Saturday
11.00 The Streets of San Francisco
11.55 News and Weather
12.00am Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Dr Simon Locke
1.30 Free Time
2.00 Dinah!
2.50 Saturday Matinee - The Mating Game (1959) (B&W) (Rpt)
4.30 Tom and Jerry
4.40 The Partridge Family
5.05 The Adventures of Black Beauty (Rpt)
5.30 Candid Camera
6.00 News at Six
6.10 Sport Around Six
6.30 Concentration
7.00 The Jimmy Stewart Show
7.25 Premiere Movie - Movin’ On: In Tandem (1974)
8.40 Late News
8.50 The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
9.45 Late Night Movie - The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
11.25 Closedown

All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified.

Today’s TV: Thursday 10 April 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.45am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes before the start of TV One’s scheduled programming
9.00 Play School (Rpt)
9.25 Willo the Wisp (Rpt)
9.30 UPA Cartoons (Rpt)
9.35 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 Don’t Ask Me (Rpt)
11.00 Warship (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
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.00 Sesame Street (Rpt)
4.00 After School, including:
4.02 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
4.30 Anthony Savill’s Small World
4.37 The Video Dispatch
5.00 Terrahawks (Rpt)
5.30 Colour in the Creek (Part 6)
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 Coronation Street (Double episode)
8.30 Close Up
9.30 The Brothers McGregor
10.00 The Avengers (Rpt)
11.00 News
11.05 The Invaders (Rpt)
12.05am Closedown

TV2
11.45am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes before the start of TV2’s scheduled programming
Noon Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 Miller’s Court
2.30 A Country Practice
3.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
4.00 Thursday Afternoon Movie - Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Three’s Company (Rpt)
7.00 The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs (Rpt)
7.30 Scarecrow and Mrs King
8.30 Dynasty
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Tonight
11.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Sunday 11 April 1982
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Sport on One
1982 Masters Tournament - round three; live from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia
11.00 Church Service - The Easter Eucharist
Noon News
12.02 Big League Soccer
12.55 Tomorrow’s World (Rpt)
1.00 Country Calendar (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last week’s programme
1.15 Dig This (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Thursday’s programme; first shown on TV2
1.30 Of Course You Can Do It
2.00 Sunday Afternoon Movie - The Corn Is Green (1979)
3.30 Perry Como: Easter by the Sea
4.20 Magnets: The Dragon’s Secret
4.35 Showcase
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Credo
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Lookout - The Boozer
7.50 Country Calendar
8.05 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (Part 3)
9.05 News
9.10 Newsmakers
9.40 Loose Enz - Graham’s Mum and the Goulden Tour
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

10.15 Today Is…
10.20 Therese Raquin (Part 3, final)
11.15 News
11.20 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee - Take Me High (1973)
1.25 The Question
1.35 The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Rpt)
2.00 Wedding Day
3.00 The Royal Wedding Highlights
4.05 In Our Hands
4.30 History of the Motor Car (Part 2)
5.00 Just Jazz (Rpt)
5.30 Stars on Sunday
5.55 News
6.00 Our World - Tree of Thorns
6.50 The Week with 2
7.00 Hello Larry
7.25 Sunday Movie - My Fair Lady (1964)
10.15 Radio with Pictures
11.00 Closedown

Today’s TV: Saturday 11 April 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.25am Palmers Garden Show
9.25 Burke’s Backyard (G)
10.15 The New Zealand Fit Kit: Aerobics with Suzy Aiken (Part 3) (G)
10.35 The Grass Is Greener - Harry M Miller (Rpt, G)
First shown in 1991; click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

11.00 One World of Sport - Yachting
1992 America’s Cup - semifinals; review
Noon ABC World News
12.30 The Shape of the World (G)
1.35 1992 BAFTA Awards
3.35 Gillette World Sport Special
4.00 One World of Sport - Rugby: The Big Game
Includes highlights of the 1991/92 County Championship final (Lancashire v Cornwall) and coverage of the Transvaal v Barbarians match
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Survival (G)
7.00 Country Calendar (G)
7.30 One World of Sport - Netball
1992 Milo International Netball Series - NZ v Trinidad and Tobago; live from the Manawatu Sports Stadium, Palmerston North
9.30 Mini-Series - The Thorn Birds (Starting tonight, part 1) (Rpt, PGR)
12.15am Closedown

Channel 2
6.30am The Adventures of Commander Crumbcake (G)
7.00 Potsworth & Co (G)
7.30 Toxic Crusaders (G)
8.00 What Now, including (all times approx):
8.10 Mr Bogus (G)
8.45 Hammerman (G)
10.05 The Pirates of Dark Water (G)
11.00 Pepsi RTR Top 40
Noon Head of the Class (G)
12.30 Videofashion (G)
1.00 Saturday Cinema - Staying Alive (1983) (Rpt, G)
3.00 Hey Hey It’s Saturday (G)
5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (G)
6.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown (G)
6.30 Totally Hidden Video (Double episode) (G)
7.30 Baywatch (Rpt, PGR)
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Baywatch (Continued)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies - Lucas (1986) (Rpt, AO)
10.30 Aussie League on 2
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1992 - round four; highlights of today’s match
11.30 The Saturday Late Movie - Joe Kidd (1972) (Rpt, AO)
1.20am 21 Jump Street (PGR)
2.25 Closedown

TV3
6.30am Kissyfur (Rpt, G)
7.00 Good Morning, Miss Bliss (G)
7.30 EBS (G)
Includes Garfield and Friends, Dennis the Menace and Slimer!
8.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (G)
9.00 Ya Hoo (G)
Includes The Addams Family
10.00 Coca-Cola TVFM - Hits
Noon The Sherlock Holmes Movie Season - The Pearl of Death (1944) (B&W) (G)
1.30 Mann’s Best Friends (PGR)
2.00 Floyd on France (Final) (G)
2.30 Karen’s Song (G)
3.00 Planet Earth (Rpt, G)
4.00 The Wonderful World of Disney - Journey to the Valley of the Emu (Final) (G)
5.00 Robin of Sherwood (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.40 Family Night at the Movies - Melody Time (1948) (G)
9.40 Hard Time on Planet Earth (PGR)
10.40 Coca-Cola TVFM - Rocks
12.10am The Midnight Hour - Monsters (Double episode) (AO)
1.10 Closedown

Sky Sport
7.00am Sky Sport - Gillette World Sport Special
7.30 Muscle Magazine
8.00 Golf
1992 Masters Tournament - round two; live from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia
10.00 American Football
WLAF 1992 - Birmingham v Frankfurt; full delayed coverage
11.30 Magic Years in Sport
Noon Boxing (Thomas Hearns v Ivan Barkley)
1.00 Basketball
NBA 1991/92 - San Antonio Spurs v LA Lakers; full delayed coverage
2.30 Thrills & Spills
3.00 Skiing
3.30 ESPN’s Saturday Night Thunder
5.00 Rugby League
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1992 - round four; live coverage of today’s match
6.45 Rock Sport
7.00 Rugby
1991/92 County Championship - final (Lancashire v Cornwall); full delayed coverage
8.00 Golf
1992 Masters Tournament - round two; highlights
9.30 Tennis
1992 WTA Tour, Tier II - 1992 Bausch & Lomb Championships, highlights
10.30 Football (Bundesliga 1991/92)
11.00 Skiing (US Pro Tour)
11.30 Magic Years in Sport
12.00am ESPN Direct - Checkered Flag
12.30 IHRA Drag Racing
1.30 European White Water Rafting Championships
1.54 Football
Football League 1991/92 (First Division) - live coverage of today’s match
4.00 Tennis
1992 WTA Tour, Tier II - 1992 Bausch & Lomb Championships; live from the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida (Continues to 7am)

Sky Movies
6.00am Seven Alone (1975) (G)
7.37 The Road Runner Show (G)
8.00 Strange Holiday (1970) (G)
9.10 The Merrie Melodies Show (G)
9.31 Box Office America (G)
10.00 Running Brave (1973) (G)
Noon Nostalgia at Noon - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) (GY)
2.00 Live and Let Die (1973) (GA)
4.00 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) (G)
6.00 See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) (GA)
8.00 Collision Course (1989) (RP16)
10.00 Stormy Monday (1988) (RP13)
11.35 Horror - The Fog (1980)
1.05am Portnoy’s Complaint (1972) (R18)
2.42 Ratboy (1986) (GA)
4.22 Caddyshack II (1988) (GA) (Continues to 6am)

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
11.00am CTV Race Day
Includes live racing from Rotorua, Hastings and Wingatui
5.30pm Forge Racing Round-Up
5.55 CTV Movie Preview
6.00 CTV Christchurch Rugby
Includes live harness racing from Addington at 6.15pm (race one), 6.45pm (race two), 7.15pm (race three) and 7.45pm (race four)
8.00 Hopkins Half Hour (G)
Includes live harness racing from Addington at 8.15pm (race five)
8.30 Strangers (AO)
Includes live harness racing from Addington at 8.45pm (race six)
9.30 Basketball
NZ National Basketball League - Canterbury Rams v New Plymouth Bears; full delayed coverage, plus live harness racing from Addington at 9.45pm (race seven)
11.00 CTV Movie Preview
11.05 Canterbury Top Ten Hits (G)
11.35 Closedown

1861

Today’s TV: Wednesday 12 April 1978
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Forearmed
12.45 Country Calendar (Rpt)
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Days of Our Lives
2.15 Peyton Place (Rpt)
2.40 Nice One
2.45 Play School
3.15 The Wombles (Rpt)
3.20 Curly & Coconut (Rpt)
3.30 Gussy the Kangaroo (Rpt)
3.35 Sally & Jake (Rpt)
3.45 The Roman Holidays
4.05 Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
4.30 Nice One
4.35 Room 222 (Rpt)
5.05 Tarzan (Rpt)
6.00 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Angels
8.00 Three’s Company
8.30 Lou Grant
9.30 News
9.40 Midweek Movie - What Are Best Friends For? (1973)
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 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
4.25 Clutch Cargo
4.30 Hey Hey It’s Andy, including:
4.30 Laramie (Rpt)
5.30 Welcome Back, Kotter (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 Six-Thirty Special - Elephants
7.30 The Liver Birds
8.00 Movie of the Week - Bad Man’s River (1972)
9.40 Now That We’re Here
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 The Commanders (Final) (Rpt)
11.30 (approx) Closedown

All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified.

Today’s TV: Tuesday 12 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 Kōhanga Reo (Rpt)
11.40 Rainbow
Noon Midday News
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Doctor at Sea (Rpt)
1.40 Days of Our Lives
2.40 Big Deal (Part 3) (Rpt)
3.30 Masterworks
3.40 Anna Karenina (Part 4) (Rpt)
4.45 Three’s Company (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 Fair Go
8.00 Matlock
9.00 Australia (Starting tonight, part 1)
10.00 Travelling Man (Part 6)
11.00 House Calls
11.30 Citizen Smith (Rpt)
12.10am Closedown

Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Love Connection
12.30 One Day at a Time (Rpt)
1.00 Magnum PI (Rpt)
2.00 Alice
2.30 Play School
2.55 After School, including:
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 Flintstone Frolics (Rpt)
4.30 The Book Tower
5.00 Silver Spoons
5.30 Doctor Who - The Creature from the Pit (Part 3) (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Entertainment This Week
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 60th Academy Awards
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, WorldWatch and a news update
11.00 The Streets of San Francisco
11.55 Closedown

1862

Today’s TV: Tuesday 2 May 1995
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 The World Today (Continued)
7.00 BBC World Headlines
7.05 The Money Programme
7.55 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
8.05 eTV - Asia Development Bank: Catalyst for Development (G)
8.30 UK Today (Rpt, G)
8.35 eTV, including:
8.35 Waste Not (Rpt, G)
9.05 Ethnic Cooking (Part 5) (G)
9.35 Beyond Communism: The Baltic Way (Part 5, final) (G)
10.00 Infomercials
11.00 The Flying Doctors (Rpt, G)
Noon The Midday Movie - Sam & Me (1991) (Rpt, AO)
1.55 Luv (G)
2.30 Newhart (Final) (G)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Posy Narkers (G)
3.30 The Greedysaurus Gang (Rpt, G)
3.35 The Adventures of the Black Stallion (G)
4.10 Emmerdale (G)
4.45 Te Karere
4.55 Strike It Lucky (Rpt, G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Coronation Street (Double episode) (G)
8.35 Crimewatch
9.40 Pie in the Sky (Final) (PGR)
10.40 Crimewatch Update
10.45 Sportsnight
11.15 One Network News - Late Edition
11.30 Yes, Prime Minister (Rpt, G)
12.00am The Manageress (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 BBC World, including:
1.00 BBC Newshour
2.00 BBC World News
2.25 Time Out - Holiday
3.00 BBC World News
3.15 Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.25 Time Out - Film ‘95 with Barry Norman
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 7am)

TV2
6.10am Wonder World! (G)
6.35 The Adventures of T-Rex (Rpt, G)
7.05 Samurai Pizza Cats (Rpt, G)
7.35 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Rpt, G)
8.00 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.40 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
10.00 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Santa Barbara
11.30 The Susan Powter Show (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 Ricki Lake (Rpt, PGR)
2.55 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
3.25 Son of a Gunn (G)
4.00 Rugrats (G)
4.30 Doug (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (B&W) (Rpt, G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 The Nanny (PGR)
8.00 Seinfeld (PGR)
8.30 The Tuesday Night Movie - Desperate Justice (1993) (AO)
10.25 Newsnight
10.55 Sex (Rpt, AO)
11.55 Top Cops (AO)
12.55am ‘Allo ‘Allo! (Double episode) (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 Man O Man (Final) (Rpt, G)
2.45 Top of the Pops (Rpt, PGR)
A repeat screening of last Sunday’s programme
3.15 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
4.00 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.30 Ricki Lake (Rpt, PGR)
5.20 Paradise Beach (Rpt, G)
5.45 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G) (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.30am The Muppet Show (G)
7.00 You and Me (G)
7.25 The New Adventures of Gilligan (G)
7.55 My Three Sons (G)
8.25 That Girl (Double episode) (G)
9.25 Give Us a Clue (G)
9.55 Treasures Parent Time (G)
10.00 You and Me (G)
10.25 Infomercial
11.00 What’s Cooking? (G)
11.30 The Graham Kerr Show (G)
Noon Donahue (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.00 The Price Is Right (G)
2.30 General Hospital (PGR)
3.30 The Love Boat (G)
4.30 Get Smart (G)
5.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hogan’s Heroes (G)
7.30 That Comedy Show (Series return) (PGR)
8.00 Skitz (Series return) (PGR)
8.30 Hard Copy - Secrets of the Stars (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Dangerous Curves (AO)
12.05am ABC World News Tonight
12.35 America’s Most Wanted (AO)
1.35 Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

HBO
Noon Critters 3 (1993) (R16)
1.30 Chrome Soldiers (1992) (R13)
3.00 Your Guide to “Star Trek: Generations”
3.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) (GY)
5.00 The Making of “Lassie”
5.15 The Sandlot (1993) (GY)
7.00 Afraid of the Dark (1991) (RP13)
8.30 Westpac Showcase - Trust (1990) (GA)
10.15 Blade Runner: The Director’s CUt (1982/93) (RP13)
12.10am Late Night (R18)
12.40 Big Girls Don’t Cry… They Get Even (aka “Stepkids”) (1992) (GY)
2.20 Closedown

CNN (Schedule incomplete)
6.00am World Business Today
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 OJ Special
9.00 World Business Today Update
9.30 World Sport
10.00 The World Today
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
2.30 Live OJ Special
3.30 Showbiz Today
5.30 Moneyline
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 Larry King
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
A delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 6pm news bulletin
9.30 Crossfire
10.00 Business Show
11.30 World Sport
12.30am Business Asia
1.00 Larry King
1.30 OJ Special
2.30 World Sport
3.30 Business Asia

Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continued)
Includes The Juice Night Train (until 7am) and The Juice Traffic Jam (from 7-10am)
10.00 Mother’s Day
10.30 Growing Up Together
11.00 Jones & Jury
11.30 Alice
Noon The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
12.30 Three’s Company
1.00 Love Connection
1.30 Supermarket Sweep
2.00 Loving
2.30 Prisoner (aka “Prisoner: Cell Block H”)
3.00 Jenny Jones
4.00 Rolonda
5.00 Tom and Jerry
6.00 Love Connection
6.30 Brookside
7.00 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 Destiny Ridge
9.30 China Beach
10.30 Night Court
11.00 SCTV Network
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 10am)
Includes The Juice Late Night (until 1am) and The Juice Night Train (from 1-7am)

Discovery
6.00am World Class Cuisine
7.00 Biba’s Italian Kitchen
7.30 Caprial’s Café
8.00 Invention
8.30 Next Step
9.00 A World Away
10.00 In Care of Nature
10.30 Wild Sanctuaries
11.00 From Monkeys to Apes
11.30 Nature Watch
Noon Spirit of Survival
12.30 Archaeology
1.00 How the West Was Lost
2.00 In Care of Nature
2.30 Wild Sanctuaries
3.00 From Monkeys to Apes
3.30 Nature Watch
4.00 Spirit of Survival
4.30 Archaeology
5.00 How the West Was Lost
6.00 World Class Cuisine
7.00 Biba’s Italian Kitchen
7.30 Caprial’s Café
8.00 Invention
8.30 Next Step
9.00 A World Away
10.00 Body Atlas
10.30 Invention
11.00 Wings (Great Planes)
12.00am Ancient Warriors
12.30 Pirates
1.00 Search for Adventure
2.00 Body Atlas
2.30 Invention
3.00 Wings (Great Planes)
4.00 Ancient Warriors
4.30 Pirates
5.00 Search for Adventure (Continues to 6am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, Southern
9.00am Infomercials
11.00 Life in New Zealand
3.00pm BBC World News
3.30 Film ‘95 with Barry Norman
4.00 BBC Newsday
5.30 Marketplace (G)
6.00 BBC Newsday
6.30 Wildlife International (G)
7.00 News at Seven
7.30 Northwood (PGR)
8.00 BBC World News
8.25 Stopwatch
8.30 TAANZ Travel Travel (G)
9.00 Tuesday Comedy - The New Statesman (AO)
9.30 60 Minutes
First shown on TV2
10.30 World Business
11.00 Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
4.45pm Teletext
5.00 Susan Sells (G)
6.00 George Balani at Six (aka “The George Balani Show”) (G)
7.00 TAANZ Travel Travel (G)
7.30 CTV’s World - Tonight
8.30 Full Time (G)
9.30 Boating World (G)
10.00 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
10.45 CTV’s World - Tonight (Rpt)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
11.45 Closedown

Bays Television, Nelson
7.00pm Bays-Watch
7.30 The National Business Review Report (G)
8.00 TAANZ Travel Travel (G)
8.30 Bays Market (G)
9.00 Poldark (PGR)
10.00 The George Balani Show (G)
11.00 Bays-Watch

CRY Television, Christchurch
11.00am Green Zone (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s programme
1.00pm Yellow Zone (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
4.00 Green Zone
6.00 Yellow Zone
9.00 CD Red Zone
12.00am Closedown

MAX: The Music Channel, Auckland
4.00pm The Beat
Includes McDonald’s Most Wanted and The Bluebird Word
6.00 The Serious Fun Show
9.00 The Zone
12.00am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 3 May 2000 (Part 1 - Free-to-air channels)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World - BBC News
6.15 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
6.30 Telstra Business
7.00 Breakfast
8.55 Infomercial - LV Martin’s Shop at Home
9.25 Brush Strokes (Rpt, G)
10.00 Good Morning
Noon Midday (News)
12.35 BBC World, including (all times approx):
12.35 Reporters
1.00 BBC News
1.30 HARDtalk
2.00 World Business Report
2.30 EastEnders (G)
3.05 Emmerdale (G)
3.40 Love Thy Neighbour (Final) (Rpt, PGR)
4.10 Real Food for Real People with Jo Seagar (Rpt, G)
4.40 Te Karere
5.00 Five O’Clock with Jude Dobson (G)
5.30 Today Live
6.00 One News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 United Travel Getaway (G)
8.30 Blue Heelers (AO)
9.30 TeleBingo
10.00 People Like Us (AO)
10.35 Tonight (News)
11.05 Where the Heart Is (Rpt, AO)
12.10am Children’s Hospital (PGR)
12.40 Infomercials
1.40 BBC World, including:
1.40 Click Online
2.00 BBC News
2.30 Reporters
3.00 BBC News
3.30 Asia Today
4.00 BBC News
4.30 The Travel Show
5.00 BBC News
5.30 World Business Report
5.45 World Sport (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Creflo Dollar - Changing Your World
6.30 Kenneth Copeland - Believer’s Voice of Victory
7.00 Kipper (G)
7.10 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (Rpt, G)
7.35 Super Pig (G)
8.05 Hi-5 (G)
8.40 Bananas in Pyjamas (Rpt, G)
8.45 Bumble (G)
9.05 Blue’s Clues (G)
9.30 Bananas in Pyjamas (Rpt, G)
9.35 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.05 Infomercials
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 Ricki Lake (AO)
2.55 Infomercial
3.20 Bumblettes (G)
3.30 What Now PM, including (all times approx):
3.35 I Am Weasel (G)
3.50 Digimon (G)
4.30 Johnny Bravo (G)
4.50 Hey Arnold! (Rpt, G)
5.25 Full House (Rpt, G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Friends (PGR)
8.00 Veronica’s Closet (PGR)
8.30 Spin City (PGR)
9.00 Just Shoot Me! (PGR)
9.30 Jack & Jill (PGR)
10.30 Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (PGR)
11.00 VIP (AO)
12.00am Martin (PGR)
12.30 Infomercials
1.30 Movie - Virtual Seduction (aka “Addicted to Love”) (1995) (AO)
3.30 Walker, Texas Ranger (Rpt, AO)
4.30 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.00 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
5.30 Infomercial (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.00am Hour of Power
A condensed half hour version
6.30 Jim Henson’s Animal Show (Rpt, G)
7.00 Gargoyles (Rpt, G)
7.30 Masked Rider (Rpt, G)
8.00 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Rpt, G)
8.30 Teletubbies (Rpt, G)
9.00 You and Me (G)
9.25 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
9.30 Infomercials
10.30 Cosby (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Roseanne Show (PGR)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 Judge Wapner’s Animal Court (Rpt, G)
2.30 You and Me (Rpt, G)
3.00 Teletubbies (Rpt, G)
3.25 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 Arthur (Rpt, G)
4.00 Pokémon (Rpt, G)
4.30 Dragon Ball Z (G)
5.00 Hollywood Squares (G)
5.30 Judge Judy (G)
6.00 3 News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 3 Special - Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Story (PGR)
8.30 Inside New Zealand - Inside Infidelity (Part 1) (AO)
9.30 Dateline
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Timecop (PGR)
12.00am ABC World News Tonight
12.30 Infomercials
1.30 Models Inc. (Rpt, PGR)
2.15 Hitz (AO)
2.40 Echo Point (Rpt, G)
3.05 Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word
5.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am)

TV4
6.00am Teletrader (Continued)
9.00 Infomercials
5.00pm Neighbours (G)
5.30 Moesha (Rpt, G)
6.00 Sunset Beach (G)
7.00 Most Wanted (PGR)
7.30 7th Heaven (PGR)
8.30 Savannah (PGR)
9.30 Strangers with Candy (Starting tonight) (PGR)
10.00 Comedy at Club 54 (Rpt, AO)
10.30 Married… with Children (Rpt, AO)
11.00 Late Movie - All Tied Up (1994) (AO)
12.45am Infomercials
1.45 Teletrader (Continues to 9am)

Prime
6.00am TVSN (Continued)
7.00 Destination New Zealand
This programme repeats at 8am
9.00 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word
9.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
10.00 TVSN
Noon Infomercial
12.30 Prime Living
1.30 Infomercial
2.00 Horizon - The Man Who Lost His Body (Rpt)
2.55 Hi-de-Hi! (Rpt, G)
3.30 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Rpt, G)
4.30 Prime Living
5.30 Regional Programmes
Family Affairs (NZ wide - except Hamilton and Christchurch) (G)
Prime Local News (Hamilton and Christchurch only)
6.00 Taxi (Rpt, G)
6.30 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt, G)
7.00 Cheers (Rpt, G)
7.30 The Bill (PGR)
8.00 Father Ted (PGR)
8.30 The Mission (Part 4) (Rpt, G)
9.30 Challenge of Flight (G)
10.30 Motorsport Mundial (G)
11.00 Beauty and the Beast
12.00am TVSN (Continues to 7am)

More to come in Part 2.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 3 May 2000 (Part 2 - Sky UHF channels)
from the NZ Listener

Sky Movies
6.45am Not Quite Human (1987) (G)
8.15 The Making of “Boys Don’t Cry”
8.45 The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997) (M)
10.30 Gunshy (1998) (M)
12.15pm Def Jam’s How to Be a Player (1997) (R16)
1.45 12 Angry Men (1997) (G)
3.45 The Making of “Jubilee”
4.15 Heaven Sent (1996) (PG)
6.00 Prefontaine (1997) (M)
8.00 Box Office America
8.30 LA Confidential (1997) (R18)
10.45 Def Jam’s How to Be a Player (1997) (R16)
12.20am The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997) (M)
2.10 Indecent Behaviour I (1993) (R18)
3.50 LA Confidential (1997) (R18) (Continues to 6.15am)

Sky Sport
6.30am Football
UEFA Champions League 1999/2000 - semifinals, first leg (Valencia v Barcelona); live from Mestalla Stadium, Valencia
9.00 Cory Everson’s Gotta Sweat
9.30 Fitness America Pageant
10.00 Sportscenter
11.00 Basketball - NBA in the 90s
11.30 ESPN This Week
Noon Basketball
NBA Playoffs 2000 - game four (Charlotte Hornets v Philadelphia 76ers), round one; live from First Union Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2.30 Motorsport - NHRA Heat
3.00 Rugby League
NRL 2000 - Melbourne Storm v Newcastle Knights; full replay (match of the week)
4.45 Tenpin Bowling
PWBA 2000 - Las Cruces New Mexico Open; highlights
5.30 Football
English Premier League 2000 - highlights of the previous weekend’s matches
6.30 Motorsport
Superbike World Championship 2000 - Sugo, Japan; highlights
7.30 Ford Outdoor Pursuits
8.00 The Golf Show
8.30 Lion Red Sportscafe (Free to air)
9.30 Golf
2000 European Tour - Peugeot Open de España; highlights
10.30 Motorsport
2000 USAC Silver Crown Series - highlights
11.30 Motorsport
2000 Barber Dodge Pro Series - highlights
12.00am Motorsport
2000 CART Rio 200 - full replay
1.45 Football
UEFA Champions League 1999/2000 - semifinals, first leg (Valencia v Barcelona); full replay
3.30 Sumo Wrestling
1998 World Heavyweight Sumo Preliminary - highlights
4.00 Basketball
NBA Playoffs 2000 - game four (Charlotte Hornets v Philadelphia 76ers), round one; full replay (Continues to 6.30am)

CNN (UHF variant, as per the Listener; schedule incomplete)
6.30am World Business Today
7.00 Sky News
Via satellite from London
7.30 Q&A Live
8.30 Insight Live
9.30 World Sport
10.00 CNN This Morning
10.30 Asia Business Morning
11.00 CNN This Morning
11.30 Asia Business Morning
Noon CNN This Morning
12.15 Asia Business Morning
12.30 Asian Edition
1.00 CNN This Morning
1.30 Moneyline
2.00 Larry King
3.30 Showbiz Today
4.30 Q&A
5.30 World Report
6.30 World Sport
7.00 Sky News
Via satellite from London
7.30 Larry King
8.30 TV3 - 3 News
A delayed telecast of TV3’s 6pm news bulletin
9.30 Insight
10.30 Biz Asia
11.30 TV3 - Nightline
A delayed telecast of TV3’s late night news bulletin
12.15am Asian Edition
12.30 Biz Asia
1.30 The Artclub
2.00 Arts Tonight
2.30 World Sport
3.30 American Edition
4.30 CNN Newsroom (Until 5am)

Sky 1 (UHF variant, as per the Listener)
6.00am Cartoon Network, including:
6.00 The Popeye Show
6.30 The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
7.00 Batman: The Animated Series
7.30 I Am Weasel
8.00 Cow and Chicken
8.30 Dragon Ball Z
9.00 Dr Zitbag’s Transylvania Pet Shop
9.30 Tom & Jerry Kids
10.00 The Smurfs
10.30 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
11.00 The Flintstones
11.30 The Jetsons
Noon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
12.30 Dr Zitbag’s Transylvania Pet Shop
1.00 Fantastic Max
1.30 Tom & Jerry Kids
2.00 The Popeye Show
2.30 The Smurfs
3.00 I Am Weasel
3.30 Mike, Lu & Og
4.00 Donny & Marie
5.00 Divorce Court
5.30 Mad About You
6.00 Martin
6.30 Hangin’ with Mr Cooper
7.00 Change of Heart
7.30 Walker, Texas Ranger
8.30 Nash Bridges
9.30 Cops
10.00 Oz
11.00 Jerry Springer
12.00am Sky 1 Adult Entertainment - A World of Desire (R18)
1.30 The Bold and the Beautiful
2.00 Nash Bridges (Rpt)
3.00 Cops (Rpt)
3.30 Who’s Sorry Now?
4.00 Oz (Rpt)
5.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (Rpt) (Continues to 6am)

Discovery/Trackside (UHF variant, as per the Listener)
6.00am Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious Universe
6.30 Beyond 2000
7.00 Splat!
7.30 Ultrascience
8.00 Equinox
9.00 Discover Magazine
10.00 Untamed Australia
11.00 TAB Trackside (Free to air)
Includes live racing from Te Aroha (NZ), Warrnambool (AUS) and Gosford (AUS), plus live greyhound racing from Manukau (NZ) from 3pm
7.00pm Discover Magazine
8.00 Wild Discovery
9.00 Surviving the Wild
10.00 Outback Adventures
11.00 Discover Magazine
12.00am Lonely Planet
1.00 Discovery Profile Series
2.00 Travelers
3.00 Ushuaia
4.00 INNtimate Escapes (Double episode)
5.00 Go for It! (Continues to 6am)

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 5 May 1970
from The Press

NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 On Camera
2.45 Dr Kildare
3.09 Riptide
4.00 The Galloping Gourmet
4.25 Living in New Zealand
4.41 Play School
5.02 Headline News and Weather
5.05 Woobinda (Animal Doctor)
5.31 Batfink
5.55 World Scene
6.15 Happen Inn (Final)
7.00 Network News
7.25 Weather / The South Tonight
7.40 Coronation Street
8.10 Lancer
9.00 Newsbrief
9.10 Gallery
9.30 Softly, Softly
10.32 Not in Front of the Children
Followed by Late News, Weather and Closedown

Today’s TV: Tuesday 5 May 1998
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World - The World Today (Continued)
6.15 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
6.30 Telstra Business
7.00 Breakfast
9.30 5.30 with Jude (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of the previous evening’s programme
10.00 Good Morning
Noon Midday (News)
12.30 Wonders of Weather (G)
1.05 Remington Steele (Rpt, PGR)
2.10 UK Today (G)
2.30 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
3.05 Give Us a Clue (Rpt, G)
3.40 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
4.10 All Together Now (G)
4.35 Te Karere
4.50 EastEnders (G)
5.30 5.30 with Jude (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 Market Forces (Part 6) (PGR)
8.30 Blue Heelers (PGR)
9.30 Tonight (News)
10.00 Tuesday Documentary - Oscar (G)
11.00 Moll Flanders (Starting tonight, part 1) (Rpt, AO)
12.05am Infomercials
1.05 BBC World, including:
1.05 BBC World News
1.15 World Business Report
1.30 The World Today
2.30 World Living - Film ‘98 with Barry Norman
3.00 BBC World News
3.30 HARDtalk
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 World Living - Earth Report
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 6.15am)

TV2
6.05am Infomercial
6.35 Honeybee Hutch (G)
7.00 Wowser (G)
7.30 Saban’s Adventures of the Little Mermaid (Rpt, G)
8.00 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Rpt, G)
8.30 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (Rpt, G)
9.30 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 Ricki Lake (PGR)
3.00 Infomercial
3.30 What Now
4.00 Rugrats (Rpt, G)
4.30 Big Bad Beetleborgs (G)
5.00 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.30 Parker Lewis Can’t Lose (Rpt, G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Street Stories (PGR)
8.00 NZI Crimescene (PGR)
8.30 The Street (G)
9.00 Polly (AO)
9.30 The X-Files (AO)
10.30 NewsRadio (Double episode) (PGR)
11.25 Married… with Children (Double episode) (Rpt, PGR)
12.25am The Jamie Foxx Show (G)
12.55 Infomercial
1.25 Full Frontal (Rpt, AO)
2.25 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt, G)
2.50 World’s Weirdest TV (Rpt, G)
3.15 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
3.40 Good Morning (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme; first shown on TV One
5.35 Kenneth Copeland - Believer’s Voice of Victory (Continues to 6.05am)

TV3
6.00am Randy Morrison
6.30 Oscar and Friends (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 Danger Mouse (G)
7.35 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
8.05 Teletubbies (G)
8.30 Sesame Street (G)
9.30 Infomercials
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt, G)
11.00 Beyond 2000 (Rpt, G)
11.30 Empty Nest (Rpt, G)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 Baywatch (PGR)
3.00 Treasures Parent Time (Rpt, G)
3.05 You and Me (G)
3.30 Pingu (G)
3.35 Teletubbies (G)
4.05 101 Dalmatians: The Series (G)
4.30 Extreme Dinosaurs (G)
5.00 Full House (Rpt, G)
5.30 Judge Judy (G)
6.00 3 News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 Caltex Dreams Come True (PGR)
8.00 Cathay Pacific Destination Planet Earth (PGR)
8.30 Inside New Zealand - Indelible Evidence (AO)
9.30 Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Scotland (Rpt, AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 War Machines of Tomorrow (PGR)
12.05am ABC World News Tonight
12.35 Infomercials
1.35 Sally Jessy Raphaël (Rpt, PGR)
2.25 The Apollo Comedy Hour (AO)
3.15 The Price Is Right (Rpt, G)
3.40 Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word
5.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am)

TV4
6.00am TVSN (Continued)
10.00 Infomercials
2.00pm Interior Motives (Rpt, G)
2.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
3.00 Sunset Beach (PGR)
4.00 Get Smart (Rpt, G)
4.30 Saved by the Bell (Rpt, G)
5.00 Saved by the Bell: The New Class (Rpt, G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 Hang Time (G)
6.30 Breakers (G)
7.00 TV Bloopers and Practical Jokers (Rpt, PGR)
7.30 Sliders (PGR)
8.30 Star Trek: Voyager (PGR)
9.30 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (PGR)
10.30 Red Shoe Diaries (Rpt, AO)
11.00 The NewMusic (Rpt, PGR)
12.00am TVSN (Continues to 10am)

MTV
6.00am Kickstart
9.00 MTV Mix
Noon Non-Stop Hits
2.00 US Top 10
3.00 Shola Ama, Boyzone and All Saints Live
3.30 Collexion - Spice Girls
4.00 Select MTV
6.00 Ultra Sound - Inside Madonna
6.30 The Real World
7.00 Hitlist UK
8.00 MTV Hot
9.00 Toast
10.00 Up for It
11.00 Superock
1.00am Night Videos (Continues to 6am)

HBO
6.45am Martha & Ethel (1993) (G)
8.00 The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain (1995) (G)
9.45 End of Summer (1995) (M)
11.30 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) (PG)
1.15pm The Turn of the Screw (1992) (M)
3.00 Can’t Buy Me Love (1987) (PG)
4.30 Jack and Sarah (1995) (M)
6.20 The Making of “Romeo + Juliet”
6.45 Captives (1994) (M)
8.30 Tuesday Night Thriller - 12 Monkeys (1995) (M)
10.40 Cosi (1996) (M)
12.15am Bed of Roses (1995) (G)
1.40 The Turn of the Screw (1992) (M)
3.15 Panther (1995) (R16)
5.15 Can’t Buy Me Love (1987) (PG) (Continues to 7am)

Sky Sport
6.30am ESPN Direct - The Hockey Show
6.55 Football
English Premier League 1997/98 - Manchester United v Leeds United; live from Old Trafford, Manchester
9.00 Cory Everson’s Gotta Sweat
9.30 Sportscenter
10.30 Sportscenter International
11.00 Survival of the Fittest
11.30 The Reel Guys
Noon Spanish Fly
12.30 On the Pole
1.00 Vintage Car World
2.00 Sky Sport - Motoworld
2.30 X Games Files - Street Luge
3.15 Rugby
Super 12 1998 - Hurricanes v Crusaders; full replay
5.00 Bowls
1998 Trans-Tasman Championship - highlights
6.00 Sportscenter International
6.30 Football
English Premier League 1997/98 - highlights of last weekend’s matches
7.30 Golf
1998 European Tour - Turespaña Masters Open Baleares; preview show
8.30 Re:Union
9.30 AFL 1998 Highlights
10.30 Snooker
1998 World Snooker Championship - highlights
12.00am Tip of the Tongue
12.30 Inside Drag Racing
1.00 ESPN Direct - Snowboarding
2.00 Motorsport
1998 AMA Supercross Championship - round 14; full replay
4.00 ESPN2’s Boxing
5.30 Boxing
Superbouts - Jones v Hopkins, 1993 (Continue to 6.30am)

CNN (Schedule incomplete)
6.30am World Business Today
7.00 Sky News
Via satellite from London
7.30 Q&A
8.30 Insight
9.00 World Business Today
9.30 World Sport
10.00 World View
11.00 Asia This Day
11.30 Moneyline
12.15pm Asian Edition
12.30 Q&A
1.00 Larry King Live
2.30 Showbiz Today
3.15 American Edition
3.30 World Report
4.30 Showbiz Today
5.00 The Art Club
5.30 Moneyline
6.30 World Sport
7.00 Sky News
Via satellite from London
7.30 Larry King
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
A delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 6pm news bulletin
9.30 TVNZ - Holmes
A delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 7pm current affairs programme
10.30 Sky News
Via satellite from London
11.30 World Sport
12.15am Asian Edition
12.30 Business Asia
1.00 Larry King
2.30 World Sport
3.30 Busines Asia
4.30 Digital Jam
5.45 American Edition (Continues to 6am)

Orange
6.00am Cartoon Network, including:
6.00 The Flintstones
6.30 Tom & Jerry Kids
7.00 The Popeye Show
7.30 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
8.00 The Adventures of Tintin
8.30 Josie and the Pussycats
9.00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
9.30 The Flintstone Kids
10.00 Richie Rich
10.30 Top Cat
11.00 The Yogi Bear Show
11.30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Noon Arrow Emblem: Hawk of the Grand Prix (aka “Grand Prix”, double episode)
1.00 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
1.30 Crocadoo
2.00 The Flintstones (Double episode)
3.00 The Fantastic Four
3.30 Centurions
4.00 The Super Mario Bros Super Show!
4.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
5.00 California Dreams
5.30 Running the Halls
6.00 The Dating Game
6.30 The Newlywed Game
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 Seinfeld
8.00 The Larry Sanders Show
8.30 Orange at the Movies - Backfield in Motion (1991) (G)
10.05 Dream On
10.35 The Larry Sanders Show
11.05 Jerry Springer Late Night
11.45 The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 6am)

Discovery
6.00am Invention
6.30 Next Step
7.00 Eyewitness
7.30 Movie Magic
8.00 Travelers
9.00 Lonely Planet
10.00 Southern Cross
11.00 What a World
11.30 Arthur C Clarke’s World of Strange Powers
Noon The New Detectives
1.00 Discovery Profile Series
2.00 Go for It
3.00 Travelers
4.00 Natural World
5.00 Kingdoms of Survival
6.00 Invention
6.30 Next Step
7.00 Eyewitness
7.30 Movie Magic
8.00 INNtimate Escapes
9.00 Hunters
10.00 Lonely Planet
11.00 Extreme Machines
12.00am Discovery Profile Series
1.00 Discover Magazine
2.00 Wings
3.00 High Adventure
3.30 Outer Bounds
4.00 The New Explorers
4.30 The Adventurers
5.00 Blue Water Dreaming
5.30 Walker’s Cay Chronicles (Continues to 6am)

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Yesterday’s TV: Tuesday 4 May 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 Leave it to Charlie (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Crown Court
1.30 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):
3.55 Pinocchio
4.00 Walt Disney’s Mickey and Donald
4.25 Neville Logan - The conversational artist
4.30 3-2-1 Contact
4.45 Video Dispatch
5.00 Olly’s music slot
5.05 The Beachcombers
5.35 Grange Hill (Rpt)
6.00 Blankety Blank
6.30 News
Includes Nationwide and regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Close to Home
8.00 Fair Go (Final)
8.30 Mini-Series - Jesus of Nazareth (Part 4, final)
10.35 Barney Miller
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
4.00 Little House on the Prairie (Rpt)
5.00 Metal Mickey (Rpt)
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News
6.10 The Gun (Rpt)
6.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
7.30 Taxi
8.00 Juliet Bravo
9.00 Eye Witness News
9.45 That’s Incredible!
10.40 On the Mat
11.10 Mannix
12.00am Closedown

Yesterday’s TV: Monday 4 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 - Against a Crooked Sky (1975) (G)
2.40 Fresh Fields (Rpt, PGR)
3.15 Entertainment Tonight (PGR)
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 5) (G)
8.00 Wheels (G)
8.30 Mini-Series - Red Fox (Starting tonight, part 1) (AO)
10.30 Tonight (News)
11.00 Monday Documentary - Red Flag over Tibet (G)
12.00am Closedown

Channel 2
6.20am Felix the Cat (G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin; first shown on 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 (PGR)
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
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 Doogie Howser, MD (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 The Flying Doctors (PGR)
8.30 LA Law (PGR)
9.30 Quantum Leap (PGR)
10.30 Studs (aka “Late Night Studs”) (AO)
11.00 Evening Shade (G)
11.30 Almost Grown (AO)
12.35am Closedown

TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Donahue (G)
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 - Blue Steel (1990) (AO)
10.45 Nightline
11.30 Miller & Mueller (AO)
12.30am Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Motorsport
1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series - Winston 500; live from Talladega Superspeedway, Talladega
9.30 Golf
1992 Senior PGA Tour - Las Vegas Senior Classic, final round; live from the Desert Inn Country Club, Las Vegas
11.00 Motoworld
11.30 Baseball Tonight
Noon Baseball
MLB 1992 - Pittsburgh Pirates v Houston Astros; full replay
3.00 Sky Sport - Bodies in Motion
3.30 Bodyshaping
4.00 Fly Fishing the World
4.30 ESPN’s Speedweek
5.00 Motorsport
1992 Formula One World Championship - Spanish Grand Prix; full replay
7.00 Football (The Big Match)
English Football League 1991/92 - Liverpool v Manchester United; full replay
8.50 Rugby League
Challenge Cup 1991/92 - final (Wigan v Castleford); full replay
10.20 Golf
1992 PGA Tour - Shell Houston Open, final round; highlights
11.30 Golf
1992 Senior PGA Tour - Las Vegas Senior Classic, final round; highlights
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 Motoworld
5.30 ESPN’s Speedweek (Continues to 6am)

Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, plus:
BBC News at 8.30am and 7pm
TVNZ - One Network News (a delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 6pm news bulletin) at 8.30pm

Sky Movies
Noon Gorillas in the Mist (1988) (GA)
2.10 A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) (1966) (GA)
A French film with English subtitles
4.00 Yogi’s Great Escape (1987) (G)
6.00 Biloxi Blues (1988) (GA)
8.00 James Dean: A Legend in His Own Time (1976) (GA)
10.00 Monsieur Klein (1976) (R16)
A French film with English subtitles
12.00am Hundra (1983) (R13)
A bilingual film with English subtitles (Spanish dialogue only)
1.45 Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report
7.00 DB Sport (G)
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (G)
9.30 Rugby: The Christchurch Game
A full replay of last Saturday’s main club match
11.00 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
11.30 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Thursday 6th May 2010 (15 years ago today)
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American dramas used to be a mainstay in TV One’s Programming in late 2000s till mid 2010s that pretty much replaced British focused content of the channels main identity, as The Following would be suited to younger TV2 audience

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 8 May 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 Fish
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Angels (Rpt)
2.20 Johnstone’s Journey (Part 2) (Rpt)
2.50 Play School
3.15 Jumbleland (Rpt)
3.40 Paddington (Rpt)
3.50 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Final)
4.10 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
4.35 The Paper Lads
5.00 The Waltons
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 It’s in the Bag (Final)
8.30 The Foundation
9.30 News
9.45 All in the Family
10.15 Police Woman
11.15 News and Weather
11.20 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.00 Romper Room
3.35 Clutch Cargo (Rpt)
3.45 Rainbow
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including:
4.00 The Flintstones
4.30 Adventures of Superman
5.00 A Haunting We Will Go (Part 6)
5.30 The Debbie Reynolds Show
6.00 News at Six
6.28 Weather
6.30 Telethon Report
6.32 Wonder Woman (Final)
7.30 Thomas & Sarah (Starting tonight)
8.30 Starsky & Hutch
9.30 Eye Witness
10.00 News at Ten
Includes Focus and an update on tomorrow’s weather
10.30 Thick as Thieves (Part 7)
11.00 Radio with Pictures
12.00am Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi (Closedown)

It’s in the Bag

1979 signified the conclusion of a notable chapter in a Kiwi tradition: It’s in the Bag. This beloved traveling quiz show started on radio in 1954 with the late Selwyn Toogood, who had hosted it for 11 years and produced approximately 600 episodes.

A television adaptation was developed in 1973 and it became a staple of the screen a year later, with the inaugural episode of It’s in the Bag as a TV show recorded at the Dunedin Town Hall. It premiered on NZBC TV at 7.47pm on the evening of Saturday 11 May 1974.

Over its successful six-year run, a total of 132 episodes were produced and It’s in the Bag travelled to 45 towns throughout the country. The final episode - from the Dunedin Town Hall (where the series originally began) - was shown live to air on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 7.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 8 May 1979 and lasted a full hour.

Throughout its tenure It’s in the Bag had raised over $1 million for charities across New Zealand. Notably, the television version was broadcast in venues that the radio version had previously helped fund.

The show made a triumphant return to New Zealand television in 1985 with a one-off special celebrating 25 years of television. Selwyn Toogood once again hosted this hour-long special, which was recorded at the Regent Theatre in Dunedin and shown on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 8.30pm on the evening of Monday 10 June 198,5 with Tineke Stephenson - who co-hosted the show from 1975 to 1978 - serving as hostess.

When It’s in the Bag resumed as a regular series the next year, Toogood passed the hosting duties over to John Hawkesby, who was accompanied by Hilary Timmins as hostess. This revival debuted on TV One at 8pm on the evening of Monday 4 August 1986 and continued for five years until its conclusion in May 1990, with the premiere episode being recorded in Palmerston North.

Today’s TV: Monday 8 May 1989
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
9.50am Teletext in Vision
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt)
10.35 Play School (Rpt)
11.00 Rainbow (Rpt)
11.15 The Smurfs (Rpt)
11.40 Towser
11.45 Kōhanga Reo (Rpt)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Santa Barbara
1.10 Days of Our Lives
2.10 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (Rpt)
2.50 Coronation Street (Double episode) (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Thursday and Friday’s programmes
3.45 Albion Market
4.15 In Loving Memory
4.45 Emmerdale Farm
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Our World - Atlantic Realm (Final)
8.00 Floodtide
9.00 Public Eye
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 Falcon Crest
10.55 Australian Rugby League
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
12.55 The Love Boat (Rpt)
1.55 Three’s Company (Rpt)
2.15 After 2, including (all times approx):
2.16 Play School
2.40 Jim Henson’s Mother Goose Stories
2.50 The Care Bears Family (Rpt)
3.15 Storybook Classics
3.45 Live!, including (all times approx):
3.50 Danger Mouse (Rpt)
4.05 A Little Princess (Part 6, final)
4.40 RTR Megamix
5.15 Throb
5.40 Newsbreak and Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Family Ties
8.30 China Beach
9.30 The Twilight Zone
10.30 Newsbreak
Includes Māori news summary (with English subtitles)
10.35 Entertainment This Week
11.30 Downtown
12.30am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Saturday 9 May 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am What Now (Series premiere)
10.25 The Muppet Show (Rpt)
10.55 Don’t Ask Me
11.20 Pot Black (Series return)
11.45 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee - Minnesota Clay (1964) (Rpt)
1.30 Sport on One
Includes rugby league (Challenge Cup 1980/81 - final [Widnes v Hull Kingston Rovers]; full delayed coverage of the match played a week earlier), golf, woodchopping, world record high diving and the 1981 FA Cup preview
5.00 Man from Atlantis (Final) (Rpt)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 The Ray Woolf Show
8.00 Taxi
8.30 Saturday Night at the Movies - The Hindenburg (1975)
11.00 The Johnny Carson Show
11.45 News
11.50 Peter Cook & Co (Rpt)
1.00am Sport on One Special
1981 FA Cup Final - Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City; live from Wembley Stadium, London
3.45 Closedown

TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 Family (Rpt)
1.50 Saturday Afternoon Movie - The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) (B&W) (Rpt)
3.30 Animals, Animals, Animals (Rpt)
3.50 Chico and the Man
4.15 The Good Old Days
5.05 The Brothers
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.15 Sports Review
6.30 Laverne & Shirley
6.50 I Like That One: Two
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 Master of Arts
8.30 Butterflies
9.00 Parkinson
10.00 News
10.15 World Cinema - Louis et Réjane (1980)
A French film with English subtitles
11.45 Closedown

The birth of What Now

What Now, a staple of New Zealand television, premiered on the morning of Saturday 9 May 1981. It was created by TVNZ producer Rex Simpson, who left the state broadcaster in 1988 to establish a children’s department for TV3, New Zealand’s first private television network. TV3 began broadcasting on the evening of Sunday 26 November 1989 with a ‘grand preview’.

What Now was originally a half hour show and screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 10am on a Saturday morning. The initial cast during the first year included Steve Hooper and four intermediate school aged children: Merryn, Richard, Oliver and Lucy, along with Murdoch the dog.

Rex Simpson explained that the core concept of What Now was to promote healthy leisure habits. The programme was inspired by the format of his earlier children’s show, How’s That?, which introduced children to fun and educational activities and had been hosted by Stu Dennison (formerly of Nice One) in 1979.

In the scripted segments Steve and the children interacted within a clubhouse set (recorded at TVNZ’s Christchurch studios). These scenes were mixed with pre-recorded games and activity ideas, as well as comedic sketches featuring Murray Slack. Initially portrayed by Jon Gadsby (of McPhail & Gadsby), the role of Slack was taken over by Tony Wahren a year later.

Today What Now holds the distinction of being the longest running children’s programme on New Zealand television.

Today’s TV: Thursday 9 May 1991
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.15am Teletext in Vision
10.30 Classics on One - Father’s Doing Fine (1952) (Rpt, G)
Noon No Place Like Home (Rpt, PGR)
12.35 Film on One - Catherine (1987) (AO)
2.10 Matinee on One - Raise the Titanic (1980) (Rpt, PGR)
4.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (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 (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.30 Foreign Correpondent
9.35 More Issues (PGR)
10.05 One Network News
10.35 After the War (Part 4) (AO)
11.40 Butterflies (Rpt, PGR)
12.20am 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 Precious Pupp (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 Bewitched (Rpt, G)
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Charlie Chalk (Rpt, G)
3.15 What-a-Mess (G)
3.30 Snorks (Rpt, G)
4.00 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (G)
4.30 COPS (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show (G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
6.00 Blind Date (G)
6.30 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Totally Hidden Video (G)
8.00 Who’s the Boss? (G)
8.30 China Beach (AO)
9.30 Unsolved Mysteries (Series return) (AO)
10.30 Funny Business (AO)
11.00 Beauty and the Beast (AO)
12.05am Closedown

TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 On Trial (AO)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, G)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 The Disney Afternoon, including:
3.30 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
4.00 The All New 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 E Street (PGR)
8.30 Rumpole of the Bailey (PGR)
9.30 GP (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 The Oldest Rookie (PGR)
12.00am Closedown

Sky Sport
Noon Rugby League
State of Origin 1991 - game one (NSW v Queensland); full replay
1.30 Yachting
1991 IACC World Championships - highlights
2.00 Bodies in Motion
2.30 Bodyshaping
3.00 Tennis
1991 Bausch & Lomb Championships - final; highlights
4.30 Motorsport
1991 Circuit of Ireland Rally - highlights
5.00 Pro Wrestling
6.00 Inside the PGA
6.30 Rugby Extra
8.00 Top Rank Boxing
9.30 Yachting
1991 IACC World Championships - highlights
10.00 Football (Serie A 1990/91)
11.45 Closedown

Sky News (CNN)
CNN News 24 hours a day, including BBC News bulletins at 7am & 7pm

Sky Movies
Noon Cathy’s Child (1979) (GY)
2.00 Who’s That Girl (1987) (GA)
4.00 Bach and Broccoli (1986) (G)
6.00 Like Father Like Son (1987) (GA)
8.00 Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) (GA)
10.00 The Jerk (1979) (GA)
11.35 Dangerous Liaisons (1988) (GA)
1.31am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Monday 12 May 1975
from the NZ Listener

TV One
2.00pm News
2.05 Movie - If I Were Harap Alb (1965)
A Romanian film with English subtitles
3.26 Riding the Indian Pacific
3.48 Sesame Street
4.46 Pippi Longstocking (B&W) (Rpt)
5.15 The Porky Pig Show
5.35 Wild, Wild World of Animals (Starting tonight)
6.00 This Week in Britain
6.05 The Monkees
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home (Series premiere)

7.30 Bon Appetit… with Des Britten
7.45 The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
8.10 Sutherland’s Law
9.00 Tonight at Nine
9.30 The Human Journey
10.20 Callan (Rpt)
11.10 Closedown

Close to Home

On this day 50 years ago: Close to Home, New Zealand’s first locally produced serial drama, premiered on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 7pm on the evening of Monday 12 May 1975.

Set in a Wellington suburb and formatted as two half hour episodes per week in a style similar to Coronation Street, Close to Home originally focused on the challenges faced by the Hearte family.

Don Hearte (played by Tony Currie) and his wife Val (Helen Brew) had their three youngest children living at home. Their 19-year-old daughter Lyndsey (Sarah Delahunty) was training to be a nurse; 17-year-old Alan (Ian Gilmour), an apprentice electrician, dreamed of becoming a musician; and 15-year-old Caroline (Katie Brockie) was still attending school.

Other members of the Hearte family lived nearby.

Tom (John Bach) and his wife Vivian (Ilona Rodgers) lived just around the corner while the eldest daughter, Jane (Janice Finn), followed her mother’s tradition of having a large family. She and her husband Alex Fleming (Bill Stalker) had four children: Chris, Nicola, John and baby Katie.

Don’s sister, Dot Paget (Glenis Levestam), was busy caring for their father, Don Sr (Charles Walker), also known as Pop, as well as looking after her son Stephen (Anthony Ward) and her husband Ken (Harry Lavington). Pop was in poor health at the time and retirement was proving difficult for him, much like it would later be for Don. He was aging with little grace.

Don and Val lived in a large house with a couple of attached flats.

Val’s sister, Christine Lorvatz (Heather Lindsay), occupied one flat while Don’s oldest friend, Pete Wallace (Robin Dene), lived in the other, maintaining a cheerful but chaotic household.

Life initially appeared fairly stable. Don worked as a sports journalist for the local newspaper and Val was effectively managing a family construction business.

Rehearsals were held in a community hall in Avalon, located in the Hutt Valley about 20 minutes from Wellington’s city centre. The serial was recorded at the newly built Avalon Television Centre which was officially opened by the NZBC in March 1975 - just before the NZBC split into three separate corporations: Radio New Zealand (RNZ), Television One and Television Two. When TV One opened transmission for the first time on the afternoon of Tuesday 1 April that year, its headquarters were established at Avalon.

Studio 8, one of the largest studios at Avalon with a floor area of approximately 600m², featured sets arranged around the studio representing rooms in various characters’ homes as well as the bar of the local hotel. Although the frequent bar scenes drew criticism, it was the only location besides private homes in which scenes could be recorded without going on location (which was rarely done).

At its height in 1977, Close to Home attracted nearly one million viewers twice each week. The serial was co-created by Michael Anthony Noonan and Tony Isaac, who initially agreed to produce it only after securing approval for The Governor, a six-part series about Sir George Grey’s exploits.

This beloved family saga established a consistent place for local drama on television and helped develop the talents of New Zealand actors and production crews through the demands of regular production.

When Close to Home began it was shown at 7pm on a Monday and Tuesday evening. In 1982 the serial was moved to 7.30pm on the same nights - a slot it maintained until the screening of the final episode on the evening of Tuesday 30 August 1983. Over eight successful years, a total of 818 episodes were produced.

You can watch the first episode of Close to Home via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

Today’s TV: Sunday 12 May 1985
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
9.00am Sing to the Lord
9.30 Big League Soccer
10.30 Weekend
Includes Money Report (at 11.30am)
11.55 News
Noon Agreport
12.15 Dig This (Rpt)
12.30 The Renovators
1.00 A Royal Film Performance - A Passage to India
1.35 The World of Survival - Box Me a Bongo
2.00 Sunday Afternoon Movie - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
4.00 Opus
5.00 China in Change (Part 4, final)
5.30 Spot On
6.00 Credo
6.30 News
6.45 Koha
7.00 Entertainment Showcase - Music for Mother’s Day
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 Flying Start (Part 7)
8.30 Strangers and Brothers (Part 9)
9.20 News
9.30 Sunday
10.00 The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Part 6, final)
11.30 News
11.35 Closedown

TV2
8.30am Sports Special
Includes golf (1985 PGA Tour - Byron Nelson Golf Classic, round three; live from the Las Colinas Sports Club, Irving, Texas), motorsport (1985 Daytona 500 and drag racing from Meremere), rugby (Auckland v Queensland - highlights) and yachting
Noon Sunday Matinee - Jimmy the Gent (1934) (B&W)
1.05 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
1.30 Born in Fire
2.00 Jazz Seen
2.50 Don’t Just Sit There (Rpt)
3.15 Monkey (Final) (Rpt)
4.00 Sunday Grandstand
Includes rugby league (1985 Challenge Cup Final - Wigan v Hull; highlights), rugby and basketball (New Plymouth v Ponsonby)
5.55 News
6.00 Fame
6.50 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Benson
7.25 Sunday Movie - Robin of Sherwood (1984)
A pilot for a new series commencing Monday 20 May 1985
9.00 Who’s the Boss?
9.25 Radio with Pictures
10.10 The Sunday Horrors - Salem’s Lot (1979, part 1)
11.40 Closedown

If the Davis Cup tie still exists the programme line-up is:
2.00-4.00pm Davis Cup Tennis (TV One)
4.00-5.55pm Davis Cup Tennis (TV2)

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Today’s TV: Thursday 16 May 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm Headline News and Weather (C)
2.05 This Afternoon
2.37 Movin’ On (C)
3.23 Chroniques de France (C)
3.37 George Plimpton Specials (Rpt)
4.26 Mr Magoo (C)
4.36 Play School
5.01 Hammy Hamster’s Adventures on the Riverbank (C)
5.14 Spot On
5.42 Headline News (C)
5.46 The Brady Bunch (C)
6.14 Popco (C)
6.42 Graphline
7.00 Network News
7.22 Regional Weather and News
Look North (AKTV2)
Newsview (WNTV1)
The South Tonight (CHTV3)
The South Tonight (DNTV2)
7.47 Coronation Street
8.18 Alias Smith and Jones (C)
9.17 Newsbrief (C)
9,19 Love Thy Neighbour (C)
9.47 Nationwide
10.10 Late News and Weather (C)
10.16 Closedown

Today’s TV: Wednesday 16 May 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
3.00 Chic Chat
3.30 Free Time, including (all times approx):
3.30 Follyfoot (Rpt)
4.00 3-2-1 Contact
4.30 Star Fleet
5.00 Circus
5.25 Our John Willie (Until 6pm - except East Coast viewers; see below)
EAST COAST VIEWERS ONLY
5.55 Te Karere
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
8.35 Wednesday Night at the Movies - Little Big Man (1970)
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm L’élégance (Rpt)
3.30 General Hospital
3.55 Fantasy Island (Rpt)
4.55 Images
5.15 RTR Video Releases
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere
On TV2 everywhere - except 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)
11.55 Closedown

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DNTV’s show should’ve been The further South Tonight

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Today’s TV: Sunday 18 May 1980
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.02 Foreign Correspondent
1.00 Farming Today
1.15 Dig This
1.30 Sport on One
Includes rugby, swimming and motorsport (IROC VII)
4.10 Koha (Final)
4.40 The Wonderful World of Disney - Trail of Danger (Part 2)
5.30 Spot On
6.00 People Like Us
6.30 News
6.45 World Watch
7.00 Show of the Week - The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile (Part 1)
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 A Horseman Riding By (Part 12)
8.50 News
9.00 Close Up
9.55 Offerings
10.00 Play of the Week - Father’s Day
10.50 News
10.55 Closedown

TV2
Noon Sunday Matinee - Twice Round the Daffodils (1962) (B&W)
1.25 High Hopes: The Capra Years
2.35 A Different Approach
2.55 Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (B&W)
3.10 Sunday Afternoon Movie - Edward, My Son (1949) (B&W)
5.00 Newsmakers
5.30 Stars on Sunday
5.55 News
6.00 This Week in Britain
6.05 Sunday Special - The New Ray Woolf Show (Final)
7.00 Nicholas Nickleby (Part 5)
7.50 Sunday Cinema - Avanti! (1972)
10.10 In Concert - The Steve Gibbons Band
11.10 Closedown

Today’s TV: Friday 18 May 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.30am Massey University
Includes Alles Gutes (episodes 6-9)
7.30 (approx) Closedown
9.55 Teletext in Vision
10.10 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.35 The Shoe People (Rpt, G)
10.40 Make Music Fun (G)
10.50 Chuckle Hounds (Rpt, G)
10.55 Doctor Snuggles (Rpt, G)
11.00 Atlantic Realm (Final) (Rpt, G)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.15 Film on One - Heidi (1952) (G)
2.00 Worlds Apart (G)
2.50 Earthwatch (G)
3.10 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 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 A Question of Sport (G)
8.30 Casualty (AO)
9.30 One World of Sport - Sports Week
10.00 One Network News
10.30 One World of Sport - Friday Night League
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1990 - Manly Sea Eagles v Canberra Raiders; full delayed coverage
12.30am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Yearling (G)
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 The All New Popeye Show (Rpt, G)
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (G)
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Smurfs (G)
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 Maya the Bee (G)
9.00 Atom Ant (Final) (Rpt, G)
9.20 Mike and Angelo (Final) (G)
9.40 Colour in the Creek (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.05 No Place Like Home (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 Webster (G)
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.50 Hot Dog (G)
3.00 Puddle Lane (G)
3.15 Wowser (G)
3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 The Chipmunks (G)
4.20 RTR New Releases (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 Beyond 2000 (G)
9.30 Married… with Children (AO)
10.00 Doctor Doctor (PGR)
10.35 Newsbreak
10.40 Unsolved Mysteries (AO)
11.40 Blue Thunder (AO)
12.45am Closedown

TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 The Power, The Passion (PGR)
1.30 Generations (PGR)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Another World (PGR)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (G)
4.00 DuckTales (G)
4.30 Voltron (G)
5.00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (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 The Greatest American Hero (G)
8.30 Airwolf (AO)
9.30 The Main Event (Starting tonight)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie - Saint Jack (1979) (AO)
1.00am 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 Late Night
7.00 News Overnight
7.30 CNN Newsroom
8.00 Larry King
9.00 Crossfire
9.30 Early Bird 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
Includes a preview of what’s coming up on Sky Sport and highlights of the sporting week
6.00 Top Rank Boxing
7.00 AWA Wrestling
8.00 Golf
1990 Senior PGA Tour - Southwestern Bell Classic; highlights
9.15 Rugby League
Includes live coverage of tonight’s NSWRL/Winfield Cup match (Manly Sea Eagles v Canberra Raiders) and highlights of the 1989/90 Rugby League Premiership final (Widnes v Bradford Northern)
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)
12.00am Closedown