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Today’s TV: Saturday 5 June 1982
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am What Now
10.30 The Muppet Show (Rpt)
10.55 Pot Black
11.45 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee - Bullwhip (1958) (Rpt)
1.20 Sport on One
Includes live racing from Ellerslie (2nd Jervois Handicap, Great Northern Hurdles, Carbine Club Stakes, Takanini Handicap, Members Handicap, Herne Bay Handicap), rugby (All Japan v NZ Universities - highlights of last Sunday’s match), basketball (1982 NBL - Canterbury v Hamilton; highlights) and football (Northern Ireland v Scotland - highlights of last month’s match)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Rock Around the Clock
8.00 To the Manor Born
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies - French Connection II (1975)
10.55 Entertainment This Week
11.40 News
11.45 Closedown

TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 Eight Is Enough (Rpt)
1.50 Saturday Afternoon Movie - On Moonlight Bay (1951)
3.25 An Exceptional Child (Part 2)
3.50 The Palace Presents
4.40 Lorne Greene’s Call of the Wild (Rpt)
5.05 The Onedin Line (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.15 Sports Review
6.30 Laverne & Shirley
6.50 I Like That One: 2
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 Just Jazz
8.30 Saturday Playhouse - You’re Not Watching Me Mummy
9.15 Parkinson
10.00 News
10.15 World Cinema - The Road to Corinth / La route de Corinthe (1967)
A French film with English subtitles
11.55 Closedown

Today’s TV: Friday 5 June 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.30am Massey University Extension Course 1992, including:
6.30 Bienvenue en France (Part 7)
6.45 77.101 Principles of Economics
7.04 39.251 NZ Literature
7.23 Massey News
7.30 Closedown
10.45 Kilroy (PGR)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News Tonight
1.00 Film on One - Once Again (1986) (AO)
3.00 Record Breakers (G)
3.15 Knots Landing (PGR)
4.15 Emmerdale (G)
4.45 Families (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.30 One World of Sport - Friday Night Rugby
Full delayed coverage of an Auckland club rugby match played at Western Springs Stadium
10.30 Tonight (News)
11.00 A Quiet Conspiracy (Part 2, final) (G)
1.00am Closedown

Channel 2
6.20am The Care Bears Family (Rpt, 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 Bastian and Barbara (G)
8.35 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 Designing Women (G)
2.30 Jase TV, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Thomas the Tank Engine (G)
3.05 Hot Dog (G)
3.20 SuperTed (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 Neighbours (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 E Street (G)
This programme was replaced by Beyond 2000 due to a late change by TVNZ
8.30 Beyond 2000 (G)
This programme was replaced by Quantum Leap due to a late change by TVNZ
9.30 Jake and the Fatman (AO)
10.30 Aussie League on 2
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1992 - South Sydney Rabbitohs v Illawarra Steelers; full delayed coverage
12.20am The Friday Late Movie - The Lords of Discipline (1983) (Rpt, AO)
2.20 Closedown

TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Donahue (AO)
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 Dinosaurs (G)
8.00 The Wonder Years (G)
8.30 Mobil Sport
Includes sumo wrestling, motorsport (1992 United Arab Emirates Rally, round three + 1992 World Sportscar Championship, round two) and Plays of the Month
10.30 Nightline
11.15 3 Sport - NBA Action
12.15am Late Movie - House of Usher (aka “The Fall of the House of Usher”) (1960) (AO)
2.15 Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Beverly Hills Brats (1989) (GY)
1.32 Best of British (G)
2.00 Ghostbusters 2 (1989) (GY)
4.00 Daemon (1989) (GY)
5.10 Haunting Harmony (1990) (G)
6.00 Blueberry Hill (1988) (GY)
7.40 Short Film - Christmas Shopping (1991)
8.00 Virginia Hill (1974)
9.35 Box Office America (G)
10.00 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) (GY)
11.30 Pumpkinhead (1988) (R16)
12.54am Turkey Shoot (1982) (R18)
2.24 The Sorcerers (1967) (GA)
3.46 The Tin Drum (1979) (R18) (Continues to 6am)

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
7.00 Echo Records Top 10 Hits (G)
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 Inside Running (Part 5) (PGR)
9.30 CTV Racing Preview
10.30 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
11.00 Closedown

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Did the late change in E Street schedule means the series was dumped from Channel 2’s schedule? E Street was never a hit with NZ audiences first aired on TV3 (now Three) a year before being usurped by The Ralston Group, then it was picked up by Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) only to falter when the series was on TV3, then couple of months later put into afternoon slot on TV One (now TVNZ 1).

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Today’s TV: Sunday 13 June 1976
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.00am Open Mind
Noon News
12.05 Dig This
12.25 This Week in Britain
12.30 The Big Match
1.30 Sunday Matinee - Diamond Horseshoe (1945)
3.10 Laurel and Hardy - They Go Boom! (1929) (B&W)
3.30 Sing Sala Bim (Rpt)
4.15 Civilisation
5.05 Spot On
5.35 The Wonderful World of Disney - The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Part 1)
6.25 The Wombles
6.30 News
6.45 Sunday’s World
7.00 The Entertainers
7.45 Country Calendar
8.00 South Riding (Part 7)
8.50 News
8.55 Seven Days
9.25 Plain Speaking
9.28 Childhood
10.20 News and Weather
10.25 Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Action on Sunday (Movie) - The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
2.25 On the Mat
2.50 Sportsworld
4.45 Alias Smith and Jones
5.35 Boy Dominic
6.00 News at Six
6.10 Regional Programmes
Sunday Best (Auckland, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Wellington)
South on Sunday (Christchurch)
6.30 The Olympiad
7.20 Dangerous Knowledge
7.45 The Good Old Days (Rpt)
8.30 The South Pacific Festival of Arts 1976 (Part 1)
9.00 Shabby Tiger (Part 6)
9.50 News
10.00 Picasso: Artist of the Century (Part 2, final)
Followed by Closedown

Today’s TV: Friday 13 June 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 Paddington (Rpt)
9.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 Nature Watch (Rpt)
11.00 News
11.02 Hadleigh (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives (Rpt)
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.40 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.05 Rainbow
3.20 Huckleberry Hound (Final) (Rpt)
3.45 After School, including:
3.46 Treasure Chest (Rpt)
3.55 Circus
4.10 The Smurfs
4.40 Movie for After School - Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 EastEnders (Double episode)
8.40 Kaleidoscope
9.35 Barney Miller (Rpt)
10.05 Fourth Estate
10.20 Escape (Part 5, final) (Rpt)
11.20 News
11.25 Michael Nesmith in Television Parts
11.50 12 O’Clock Rock - Hall & Oates: The Liberty Concert
1.50am Closedown

TV2
5.15am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes before the start of TV2’s scheduled programming
5.30 Football
1986 FIFA World Cup - Northern Ireland v Brazil; live from Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara
8.00 Closedown
11.45 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 Dynasty (Rpt)
3.25 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
3.50 The Waltons
4.45 Solid Gold
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Shazam!
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 Moonlighting (Final)
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Friday Feature - The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck (1984)
11.50 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 26 June 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Good Day
1.20 Days of Our Lives
2.10 Couples
2.50 Play School
3.15 Sean the Leprechaun (Rpt)
3.25 The Shari Lewis Show (Rpt)
3.50 Space Sentinels
4.10 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt)
4.35 The Feathered Serpent (Part 3)
5.00 The Last of the Mohicans (Part 4)
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 Super Sale
8.00 The Rag Trade
8.30 Edward & Mrs Simpson (Part 5)
9.30 News
9.45 All in the Family
10.15 Police Woman
11.10 News and Weather
11.15 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
3.00pm Chic Chat, including:
3.00 Romper Room
3.35 Bugs Bunny and Friends
3.40 The Lone Ranger
3.45 Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
4.00 Good Time Show with Tracy, including:
4.00 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
4.30 Adventures of Superman
5.00 A Haunting We Will Go (Part 13, final)
5.30 The Tony Randall Show (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.28 Weather
6.30 Telethon Report
6.35 Wonder Woman
7.35 Thomas & Sarah
8.35 Starsky & Hutch
9.35 Eye Witness
10.05 News at Ten
Includes Focus and an update on tomorrow’s weather
10.35 Backs to the Land (Final)
11.05 Radio with Pictures
12.00am Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi (Closedown)

Today’s TV: Monday 26 June 1989
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
9.55am Teletext in Vision
10.10 Aerobics Oz Style (Rpt, G)
10.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
11.00 Rainbow (Rpt, G)
11.15 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
11.40 Towser (G)
11.45 Kōhanga Reo (Rpt, G)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon Network News at Noon
12.15 Santa Barbara (PGR)
1.10 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.10 Coronation Street (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of last Thursday and Friday’s programmes
3.05 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (Rpt, G)
3.40 Nature Watch (Part 3) (G)
4.10 Terry and June (G)
4.45 Emmerdale Farm (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Sons and Daughters (G)
6.00 Network News at Six
6.30 Holmes
7.00 EastEnders (PGR)
7.30 Matlock (PGR)
8.30 Floodtide (Part 13, final) (AO)
9.30 EyeWitness News
10.00 Wide World of Sport
Includes rugby league (NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1989 - highlights of round 13), motorsport (Grand Prix - 1989 Dutch TT), tennis (Wimbledon 1989 - preview) and rugby (Wellington v France)
12.00am Closedown

Network Two
10.50am Teletext in Vision
11.05 The Young and the Restless (G)
Noon Love Connection (G)
12.30 The Duck Factory (G)
12.55 The Love Boat (Rpt, G)
1.50 Three’s Company (Rpt, G)
2.15 After 2, including (all times approx):
2.16 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.45 Jim Henson’s Mother Goose Stories (Final) (G)
2.50 The Care Bears Family (Final) (Rpt, G)
3.20 Zoobilee Zoo (G)
3.45 Live!, including (all times approx):
3.50 Danger Mouse (Rpt, G)
4.00 Danger Bay (G)
4.35 RTR Megamix (G)
5.10 The Mostly Useful Job Guide (Part 3) (G)
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, G)
6.30 Neighbours (G)
7.00 Sale of the Century (G)
7.30 The Flying Doctors (Series return) (G)
8.30 China Beach (Series return) (AO)
9.30 The Twilight Zone (PGR)
10.30 Newsbreak
Includes Māori news summary
10.35 Entertainment This Week (G)
11.35 Downtown (Final) (Rpt, AO)
12.35am Closedown

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Today’s TV: Monday 30 June 1975
from the NZ Listener

TV One
2.00pm News
2.05 Journey
2.30 Harriet’s Back in Town
3.00 Play School
3.27 Sesame Street
4.26 Teddy Edward
4.33 Professor Balthazar (Rpt)
4.43 The Porky Pig Show
5.05 Saddle Up
5.10 The Tomorrow People - Slaves of Jedikiah (Part 2)
5.37 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6.00 Happy Days
6.25 This Week in Britain
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Close to Home
7.30 Doctor at Sea
7.55 Bon Appétit with Des Britten
8.10 Colditz
9.00 Tonight at Nine
9.30 The Ascent of Man (Part 3)
10.20 Callan (Rpt)
11.10 (approx) Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Search for Tomorrow
1.25 Speakeasy
2.00 A Going Concern
2.30 Doc Elliot
3.30 Romper Room
4.00 These Are the Days
4.30 Now C Here
5.00 Seven Little Australians
5.30 The Flintstones
6.00 Regional Variations
The Goodtime Show (Auckland)
Norman (Christchurch)
6.30 My Three Sons
7.00 News
Two at Seven (Auckland)
Points South (Christchurch)
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs
8.30 Encounter
9.00 Softly, Softly: Task Force
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 The Marcus-Nelson Murders
A feature-length pilot presentation of Kojak as a television series
1.00am (approx) Closedown

Please note: In Christchurch TV2 opens transmission at 6pm due to transmitter aerial problems

TVNZ 2’s 50th anniversary

50 years ago today (30 June) our second national television channel, TV2, was launched.

It began transmission at 1pm that afternoon with the daytime US soap, Search for Tomorrow , which followed the lives of Joanne Tate Vincente and her circle of family, friends and acquaintances.

At its inception TV2 was only available in Auckland and Christchurch. However, in Christchurch, transmission hours were limited due to a faulty aerial at the Sugarloaf transmitter, causing transmission to start at the later time of 6pm instead of the usual 1pm.

Within three months the TV2 signal expanded to cover the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Wellington viewers had to wait until late 1975 to receive the channel while Dunedin, Southland and Manawatu gained access the following year. Reception outside these areas was not guaranteed.

Commercial advertising ran on TV2 five days a week with Fridays and Sundays being non-commercial.

The channel was designed to reflect a community-oriented philosophy, focusing on regional integration, direct responsiveness to the audience and featuring a subtle Polynesian identity.

Allan Martin, TV2’s director-general at the time, explained, “We’re not based on some distant European model. We’re an organisation built, made and engineered in this part of the world for our own requirements, to serve the national interest.”

This ethos was visible through its Polynesian inspired logo and strong emphasis on local content, with three-quarters of the half hour news slot at 7pm dedicated to regional news and current affairs. Jennie Goodwin became New Zealand’s first regular female newsreader and anchored the national evening news each night, Monday to Friday.

TV2’s community focus was further demonstrated during its first week on air with New Zealand’s inaugural Telethon.

Titled “24 Hours of Excitement and Entertainment”, the event involved approximately 1,200 people (including entertainers and presenters) across Auckland and Christchurch - all volunteering their time to raise funds for the St John Ambulance Service. The first Telethon raised over $485,000.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the channel we now know as TVNZ 2. I dedicate this post to @TV4, @nztv, @OnAir & @Leotv.

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Wow, can’t believe it’s 50 years! Surely TVNZ would celebrate it! Thanks Paddy for this post and a reminder of the history of TV2!

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TVNZ 2 today should have celebrated a 2 hour special reflected the history of high and lows of the second tv channel that TVNZ should have been made, but it is so far away from the original focus and today is garbage reality tv either from Australia or the US

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Today’s TV: Monday 4 July 1983
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.30am Sport on One Special
1983 Wimbledon Championships - men’s singles final; full replay
8.00 (approx) Closedown
10.00 Play School (Rpt)
10.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
10.30 The Richard Simmons Show
10.55 Yoga with Sandra Riddle (Rpt)
11.00 Dallas (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.00 Beauty and the Beast
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.20 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.25 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.50 Pullover
3.00 Chic Chat
3.30 After School, including (all times approx):
3.30 That’s Ridiculous
3.40 Munch Bunch
3.50 Vision On (Rpt)
4.20 Once Upon a Story
4.30 Kia Mōhio
4.35 The Lost Islands
5.00 W-3
5.30 Doctor Who - Black Orchid (Part 1)
East Coast viewers - Te Karere (from 5.56-6pm)
6.00 Looking Good (Part 6, final)
6.10 Kōrero Mai: Speak to Me (Part 6, final)
6.30 News
Includes Nationwide and regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Close to Home
8.00 McPhail & Gadsby
8.30 Hill Street Blues
9.30 Don’t Rock the Boat (Part 6, final)
10.00 Dallas
10.55 News
11.00 Closedown

TV2
Noon News
12.05 Midday Movie - The Molly Maguires (1970)
2.05 Bless This House (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.30 Monday Afternoon Movie - Submarine Command (1951)
5.15 Mork & Mindy (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.56 Te Karere
On TV2 everywhere - except the East Coast (TV One)
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Dukes of Hazzard
7.30 Our World - Yellowstone Below Zero
8.30 Falcon Crest
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 A Kind of Loving (Part 6)
11.00 Kojak
11.55 Closedown

Tomorrow’s TV: Saturday 5 July 1975
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon Saturday Matinee - So Well Remembered (1947) (B&W) (Rpt)
2.05 News
2.10 Sport on One
Includes football and darts
5.05 The Beachcombers
5.30 The Adventures of Black Beauty
6.00 Pop the Question
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
7.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
8.30 News
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies - The Music Man (1962)
11.15 Edwards on Saturday
12.15am Closedown

TV2 South Pacific Television
1.00pm Free Time
2.00 Paper Moon
2.25 Untamed World
2.50 Little House on the Prairie
A pilot movie premiere
4.35 Woody Woodpecker (Rpt)
5.00 Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
5.15 Klassic Keystone Komedy Kapers (B&W)
5.30 The Chicago Teddy Bears
6.00 News
Saturday at Six (Auckland)
The South on Saturday (Christchurch)
6.30 The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
7.30 Ironside
8.30 Telethon
“24 Hours of Excitement and Entertainment”; continues through the night and up until 8.30pm tomorrow

NZ’s first Telethon

TV2, which debuted on Monday 30 June 1975, hosted New Zealand’s inaugural 24-hour Telethon during its opening weekend (5-6 July).

Described as ‘a completely spontaneous show with New Zealand and overseas personalities’, the 24-hour Telethon began at 8.30pm on the evening of Saturday 5 July 1975. Derek Payne and Rhys Jones served as co-hosts in Auckland while Rodney Bryant and Bryan Allpress co-hosted from Christchurch.

The goal of that year’s Telethon was to raise funds for the St John Ambulance service, specifically to support a training school for ambulance staff and St John first aid instructors.

Approximately 1,200 volunteers from Auckland and Christchurch contributed their time and efforts as personal donations to the St John appeal.

Max Bostock (from TVW-7 Perth), with extensive experience in telethon productions across Australia, was brought to New Zealand by TV2 to organise the event.

The inaugural Telethon raised over $485,000 for St John and featured an early live performance by Split Enz. The band, who had paused their national tour, performed “Maybe” from their critically acclaimed debut album, “Mental Notes”, which had been recorded in Australia but had not yet been released in New Zealand.

You can watch that performance via NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.

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Today’s TV: Monday 7 July 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 Bugs Bunny and Friends (Rpt)
9.30 The Wombles (Rpt)
9.35 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 A Big Country
11.00 News
11.02 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Saturday’s programme
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives (Rpt)
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
3.00 Captain Pugwash (Rpt)
3.05 Munch Bunch (Rpt)
3.15 Alias the Jester
3.25 After School, including (all times approx):
3.28 The Little Dog Goes Fishing
3.36 Cantinflas Show
3.44 Once Upon a Story
3.58 3-2-1 Contact
4.31 The Edison Twins
5.00 W-3
5.30 Tales of the Mist (Part 5)
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 Magnum PI
8.30 Cheers
9.00 The Equalizer
10.00 Dallas
11.00 News
11.05 Kojak (Rpt)
12.00am 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 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
4.05 Monday Afternoon Movie - The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1938) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 The Facts of Life
7.00 Robin’s Nest (Rpt)
7.30 Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
8.30 Falcon Crest
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Television (Part 4)
11.00 Jazz Seen - Sonny Rollins in Concert (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown

Today’s TV: Sunday 7 July 1996 (Free-to-air channels, select Sky channels and regional stations only)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 BBC World News
6.20 Time Out - The Art Marathon
7.00 BBC World Headlines
7.05 Horizon
8.00 eTV, including:
8.00 4 in Ten (G)
8.30 Asia Dynamic (G)
9.00 Praise Be
9.30 Tagata Pasifika
10.00 Waka Huia
11.00 Marae
Noon Meet the Press
12.30 For Art’s Sake (PGR)
2.30 The World at War (PGR)
3.30 One World of Sport - Countrywide Bank Grandstand
Includes part two of a three-part series marking the 100th year of the modern Olympic Games
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Our World - Hippos: Out of Water (G)
7.35 60 Minutes
8.40 Montana Sunday Theatre - Band of Gold (Part 3, final) (AO)
10.50 Meet the Press (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
11.20 Time After Time
11.55 UK Today (Rpt, G)
12.00am Infomercials
1.00 BBC World, including:
1.00 BBC World Headlines
1.05 Breakfast with Frost
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 Time Out - Top Gear
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.30 Time Out - More Rhodes Around Britain
5.00 BBC World News
5.20 On the Record (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.05am Hallo Spencer (Rpt, G)
6.30 Captain Zed and the Zee Zone (Final) (Rpt, G)
6.50 Creepy Crawlers (G)
7.15 Cro (G)
7.35 The Chipmunks (G)
8.00 What Now
Includes Tom & Jerry Kids and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
10.00 Coca-Cola Video Hits - Chart (PGR)
Noon Sunday Cinema - This Is Elvis (1981) (Rpt, G)
3.00 2 Sports Action - Rugby League: The Footy Show
Includes highlights from the 1996 Lion Red Cup and an ARL Optus Cup update
4.00 The Jetsons (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Flintstones (Rpt, G)
5.00 On Our Own (G)
5.30 Hangin’ with Mr Cooper (G)
6.00 Aliens in the Family (G)
6.30 Australian Gladiators (G)
7.30 Mini-Series - Gulliver’s Travels (Part 1) (G)
9.20 Sunday Movie - Cry-Baby (1990) (Rpt, AO)
11.05 Dream On (AO)
11.35 TV Nation (PGR)
12.35am Mini-Series - Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (Part 1) (Rpt, G)
2.10 Behind the Scenes - “Twister” (Rpt, G)
2.50 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
3.25 The Big Byte (Rpt, G)
3.55 Animaniacs (Rpt, G)
4.10 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.40 You Asked for It (Rpt, G)
5.10 All in the Family (Rpt, PGR)
5.40 Kenneth Copeland - Believer’s Voice of Victory (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.15am Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (Rpt, G)
6.45 Music and the Spoken Word (G)
7.15 Key of David (G)
7.45 The Magic Box (Rpt, G)
8.10 Little House on the Prairie (G)
9.00 Sunday (PGR)
10.00 20/20 (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last Monday’s programme
10.50 National Geographic Explorer - Sunset Boulevard of Dreams (G)
11.35 Nissan Gone Fishin’ (G)
Noon The Magical World of Disney (Movie) - Run, Cougar, Run (1972) (PGR)
1.55 Matinee Movie - Country (1984) (PGR)
4.15 The Boys Are Back (G)
4.45 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
6.00 3 National News
6.30 The World’s Greatest Commercials (G)
7.00 Ansett New Zealand Time of Your Life (G)
7.30 Melrose Place (PGR)
8.30 Sunday Night at the Movies - The Mighty Ducks (aka “Champions”) (1992) (PGR)
10.40 Late Movie - Mo’ Better Blues (1990) (AO)
12.45am Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

HBO
6.50am Monkey Trouble (1994) (G)
8.25 Little Heroes (1991) (G)
9.45 Box Office America
10.15 New York, New York (1977) (GA)
1.00pm 8 Seconds (1994) (PG)
2.45 For Love or Money (1993) (M)
4.25 HBO Jukebox - George Michael
4.55 Heartburn (1986) (GA)
6.45 The Air Up There (1994) (PG)
8.30 Spotlight (Julia Roberts) - Flatliners (1990) (RP16)
10.30 Sunday Night Showcase - Shotgun Wedding (1993) (R16)
12.05am Hexed (1993) (RP16)
1.35 Closedown

Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continued)
7.00 The Juicebox (Free to air)
10.00 Highlander: The Animated Series
10.30 Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
11.00 Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
11.30 Bewitched
Noon Knots Landing
1.00 Entertainers
2.00 Perfect Strangers
2.30 My Two Dads
3.00 Head of the Class
3.30 Major Dad
4.00 California Dreams
4.30 Saved by the Bell
5.00 The Real World
5.30 The Six Million Dollar Man
6.30 The Dukes of Hazzard
7.30 Orange at the Movies - Sunday Special, including:
7.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) (PG)
9.00 Home Song (1996) (PG)
10.30 Blake’s 7
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 7am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, CTV, Southern
Noon Hour of Power
1.00 BBC World News
CTV ONLY - Welcome to Canterbury (1-3pm)
1.25 This Week
2.00 BBC World News
2.30 India Business Report
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Horizon
4.00 BBC World News
4.20 Britain in View
5.00 BBC World News
5.20 India Business Report
6.00 BBC World News
6.30 Survival (G)
7.00 The National Business Review Report
7.30 The South Bank Show (G)
8.30 The Sunday Concert - Russian Night
9.30 Rugby League: The Footy Show
First shown on TV2
COAST TO COAST & SOUTHERN ONLY - Farming New Zealand (9.30-10pm), The Footy Show (10-11pm)
CTV ONLY - CRT Farming Canterbury
10.30 This Week
CTV ONLY - Rugby League: The Footy Show (10.30-11.30pm)
11.00 BBC World News
11.25 (approx) Closedown

Bays Television, Nelson
6.30pm Infomercials - Home Shopping
7.30 Hour of Power (G)
8.30 CRT Farming Canterbury (G)
9.30 The National Business Review Report (Rpt, G)
10.00 Infomercials - Home Shopping
11.00 Bays-Watch

Aotearoa Television (ATN), Auckland
6.00pm Sports Game of the Week
7.00 Te Hēteri
7.30 Hauora
8.00 Te Ao Hou
9.00 Ngā Puna Waihanga
9.30 Mahi Pakihi
10.00 Waka Huia
10.55 Karakia
11.00 Closedown

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

MAX TV, Auckland
6.00am MAX Music Videos (Continued)
7.15 Time Out Zone
9.00 Philips Power Play
11.00 Fila True School TV
Noon Nike Sport
1.00 MAX Music Videos
5.00 Coca-Cola Always Jammin’
6.00 MAX Music Videos
9.00 Luke & Robbo’s Chat Bungalow
Includes Export Gold Gig Update at 9.10pm
11.00 MAX Music Videos
Includes Export Gold Gig Update at 11.30pm; continues through the night

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Today’s TV: Thursday 8 July 1993
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.50am Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 Tomorrow’s World (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 eTV, including:
8.30 Psychology: The Study of Human Behaviour (Part 13) (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Trouble with Medicine (Part 5) (PGR)
9.50 Europe by Design (G)
10.20 Film on One - The War of the Worlds (1953) (Rpt, PGR)
Noon Brush Strokes (Rpt, PGR)
12.35 CBS Evening News
1.05 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.05 Upstairs, Downstairs (Rpt, G)
3.10 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
4.10 Home and Away (G)
4.40 Emmerdale (G)
5.10 Te Karere
5.20 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill (PGR)
8.35 Casualty (AO)
9.40 PrimeTime (News)
10.15 Foreign Correspondent
11.05 Film on One - Shadow of the Hawk (1976) (AO)
12.55am Closedown

Channel 2
6.35am Bill and Billy’s Funky Fables (Rpt, G)
7.00 Swans Crossing (Rpt, G)
7.30 James Bond Jr (Rpt, G)
8.00 The Wind in the Willows (Rpt, G)
8.30 Tiki Tiki Forest Gang (Rpt, G)
8.35 The Adventures of Spot (Rpt, G)
8.40 eTV - Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.40 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Candid Camera (Rpt, G)
10.30 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (PGR)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.55 Astro Farm (G)
3.05 The Son of a Gunn Show (G), including (all times approx):
3.15 Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime
3.40 RollaBall
3.45 How Does It Work?
4.00 Tiny Toon Adventures (G)
4.30 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Cartoon Company (G)
5.30 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
6.00 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
6.30 Face the Music (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Melrose Place (PGR)
8.30 Married… with Children (PGR)
9.00 Seinfeld (PGR)
9.30 Full Frontal (aka “Full Frontal Presented by Fast Forward”) (AO)
10.30 Studs (AO)
11.00 The Flash (Starting tonight) (PGR)
12.00am The Trials of Rosie O’Neill (AO)
1.00 Closedown

TV3
6.30am Tarzan (Rpt, G)
7.00 Garfield and Friends (Rpt, G)
7.30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Rpt, G)
8.00 Transformers (Rpt, G)
8.30 You and Me (Rpt, G)
8.55 Parent Time (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Magic Box (Rpt, G)
9.30 You Bet Your Life (G)
10.00 The Price Is Right (Rpt, G)
10.30 Empty Nest (Rpt, PGR)
11.00 True Blue (PGR)
Noon Donahue (G)
1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 ABC World News Tonight
2.30 Parent Time (G)
2.35 You and Me (G)
3.00 Disney Adventures, including:
3.00 Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Rpt, G)
3.30 TaleSpin (Rpt, G)
4.00 Darkwing Duck (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Wonder Years (G)
5.00 Entertainment Tonight (G)
5.30 5.30 Live
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (NZ) (G)
7.30 Living Earth (G)
8.00 Murphy Brown (PGR)
8.30 3 National News Special - Eye of the Storm (AO)
9.50 Northern Exposure (G)
10.50 Nightline
11.20 Late Movie - The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe (1987) (AO)
1.20am Closedown

Sky News (CNN - schedule incomplete)
6.00am World Business Today
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 International Hour
9.00 World Business Today Update
9.30 Showbiz Today
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
3.30 Showbiz Today
5.30 Moneyline
6.00 Worldwide Update
6.30 CNN & Company
7.00 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
A delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 6pm news bulletin
9.00 Larry King
10.00 Moneyline
10.30 Crossfire
11.30 Business Day
12.30am Business Asia
1.00 Larry King
3.30 CNN & Company
4.00 News Hour

Sky Movies (HBO)
Noon Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983) (GY)
1.30 Blueberry Hill (1988) (GY)
3.15 The Fire-Raiser (1986) (G)
5.00 Rio Conchos (1964) (GA)
7.00 Queen of Hearts (1989) (GA)
9.00 Cape Fear (1962) (GA)
11.10 The Linguini Incident (1991) (RP16)
12.54am Closedown

Canterbury Television (CTV), Christchurch
6.00am Welcome to Canterbury
This programme repeats at 7am, 8am, 9am, noon, 1pm, straight after closedown, midnight and 1am
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 CTV’s City Life
7.00 The Vulcan Kitchen (G)
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 The Glory Boys (Part 2) (AO)
9.30 Jimmy’s (G)
10.00 CTV World Tonight
10.30 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
11.00 Closedown

Today’s TV: Tuesday 8 July 2003 (Free-to-air channels only)
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am UK Today (Rpt, G)
6.10 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
6.30 TelstraClear Business
7.00 Breakfast
9.00 How’s Life? (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
9.30 Jim’s Car Show (Rpt, G)
10.00 Good Morning
Noon Midday (News)
12.25 EastEnders (PGR)
1.00 Crossroads (PGR)
1.30 Epitaph (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 Wild Africa (G)
3.05 Me and My Girl (Rpt, G)
3.35 Emmerdale (PGR)
4.05 6ixth Sense (Rpt, G)
4.40 Te Karere
4.55 Cheers (Rpt, G)
5.25 How’s Life?
6.00 One News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Coronation Street (Double episode) (PGR)
8.35 Bad Girls (AO)
9.40 Six Feet Under (AO)
10.35 Late Edition (News)
10.40 The Last Word
11.10 Casualty (AO)
12.15am BBC World, including:
12.15 BBC News
12.30 World Business Report
12.45 Sport Today
1.00 BBC News
1.30 Fast Track
1.45 Holiday
2.00 BBC News
2.30 Asia Today
3.00 BBC News
3.30 HARDtalk
4.00 BBC News
4.15 World Business Report
4.30 Science Shack
5.00 BBC News
5.30 World Business Report
5.45 Sport Today (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Creflo Dollar - Changing Your World
6.30 Destiny Television
7.00 CatDog (Rpt, G)
7.15 Disney Club - Aladdin (G)
7.40 Hi-5 (Rpt, G)
8.15 TakaPu: A Gannet in the South Seas (G)
8.25 Blue’s Clues (Rpt, G)
8.50 Party Animals (G)
9.10 Clifford the Big Red Dog (Rpt, G)
9.40 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.10 Infomercials
11.35 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
12.05am The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 Ricki Lake (PGR)
3.00 Fimbles (G)
3.25 WNTV, including:
3.40 Baby Looney Tunes
3.50 SpongeBob SquarePants
4.00 X-Men: Evolution
4.30 Yu-Gi-Oh!
5.00 The Wild Thornberrys (Rpt, G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 Flipside Live
6.30 Big Brother (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (PGR)
8.30 Without a Trace (Movie-length final) (AO)
10.30 Flipside Late
A refreshed version of the 6pm transmission
11.00 XSTV
11.35 Strassman (Rpt, AO)
12.10am Heartbreak Hotel: Life on the Ledge (Rpt, AO)
1.40 Infomercial
2.10 Destiny Television
2.40 Cops (AO)
3.10 Movie - Spiral Staircase (1999) (AO)
5.00 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
5.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.00am Randy Morrison
6.30 Teletubbies (Rpt, G)
6.55 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
7.00 Cubeez (Rpt, G)
7.10 Crocadoo (Rpt, G)
7.40 Cardcaptor Sakura (aka “Cardcaptors”) (Rpt, G)
8.05 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (Rpt, G)
8.30 Untalkative Bunny (Rpt, G)
8.35 Miffy and Friends (G)
8.40 Bob the Builder (Rpt, G)
8.50 Oswald (G)
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
9.30 Infomercials
11.00 Power of Attorney (G)
11.30 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
Noon Matinee Movie - Cinderella (2000) (PGR)
2.00 Oprah (PGR)
3.00 Elmo’s World (G)
3.15 Tiny Planets (G)
3.20 Suzy’s World (Rpt, G)
3.30 Sticky TV (G)
5.00 Home and Away (G)
5.30 Judge Judy (G)
6.00 3 News
7.00 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
7.30 Charmed (PGR)
8.30 House Dates
9.00 Busted
9.30 The Strip (PGR)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 The Secret Life of Us (Starting tonight) (AO)
12.00am ABC World News Tonight
12.30 Infomercials
2.30 Home and Away (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of tonight’s programme
2.55 ABC World News Tonight (Rpt)
A repeat screening of tonight’s bulletin
3.20 Infomercials
5.30 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word (Continues to 6am)

TV4
6.00am Teletrader (Continued)
8.15 Property TV
9.00 Infomercials
6.00pm USA High (Rpt, G)
6.30 Power of Attorney (Rpt, G)
7.00 Most Wanted (PGR)
7.30 The Geena Davis Show (PGR)
8.00 Reba (PGR)
8.30 Love Is a Four Letter Word (AO)
9.00 South Park (Rpt, AO)
9.30 Movie - Troop Beverly Hills (1989) (Rpt, PGR)
11.35 Infomercials
1.35am Teletrader (Continues to 8.15am)

Prime
6.00am Here’s Lucy (G)
6.30 Here’s Humphrey (G)
7.00 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word
7.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
8.00 National Nine Early News
Live - via satellite from Sydney (TCN-9) through Australia’s Nine Network
9.00 Today
Live - via satellite from Sydney (TCN-9) through Australia’s Nine Network
11.00 Fresh: Cooking with AWW (G)
11.30 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
Live - via satellite from Sydney (TCN-9) through Australia’s Nine Network
1.00pm National Nine Morning News
Live - via satellite from Sydney (TCN-9) through Australia’s Nine Network
1.30 Just the Ten of Us (PGR)
2.00 Blue Heelers (PGR)
3.00 Valerie (G)
3.30 Growing Pains (G)
4.00 Download (G)
4.30 The Wonder Years (G)
5.00 Head of the Class (G)
5.30 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
6.00 Batman (G)
6.30 The Nanny (G)
7.00 The Price Is Right (G)
7.30 Mini-Series - Merlin (Part 2, final) (G)
9.30 Las Vegas Celebrity Secrets (PGR)
10.30 Manhattan on the Beach (AO)
11.00 Ex Rated (AO)
11.30 The Late Show with David Letterman (G)
12.25am TVSN (Continues to 6am)

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Today’s TV: Sunday 9 July 1989
from the NZ Listener and The Press

TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 Gran (G)
7.05 The Adventures of Snelgrove Snail (G)
7.15 Superbook (G)
7.40 Tube Mice (G)
7.45 Tumbledown Farm (Rpt, G)
7.55 Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (Rpt, G)
8.15 Top Cat (Rpt, G)
8.40 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt, G)
9.05 Scientific Eye (G)
9.25 Praise Be (G)
9.55 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.20 A Taste of Health (Final) (Rpt, G)
10.45 Life on Earth (Part 6) (Rpt, G)
11.40 Angels (G)
12.05pm Simpsonian World (Part 6) (G)
1.00 News Review
1.25 Six Women Writers (Part 5) (G)
1.55 Sunday Grandstand
Includes rugby league (NZ v Australia - first test; live from Queen Elizabeth II Park, Christchurch [kick-off at 2.30pm]), rugby (NZ U17 v Australia U17, Australia v Lions, Auckland v Argentina - highlights), basketball (Waitemata v Hawke’s Bay - highlights), tennis (1989 Wimbledon Championships - women’s singles final; highlights [subject to weather conditions]) and Keith Quinn’s Write Stuff
6.00 A Dog’s Show (G)
6.30 Network News and Sport
7.00 Frontline
7.45 Mastermind (G)
8.15 Colin’s Sandwich (Part 5) (PGR)
8.55 Mobil Masterpiece Theatre - A Penny for Your Dreams (AO)
10.55 Kaleidoscope (G)
11.25 Network News
11.35 Private Schulz (Part 2) (Rpt, PGR)
12.30am Cool It (AO)
12.55 Tennis
1989 Wimbledon Championships - men’s singles final; live from the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London (subject to weather conditions)
3.30 Closedown

Network Two
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 Waka Huia (G)
Noon Opus (G)
1.00 USA Today (G)
1.25 Kate & Allie (G)
1.50 A Country Practice (G)
2.50 Mother and Son (Part 3) (Rpt, G)
3.20 Upstairs, Downstairs (Rpt, G)
4.20 Last of the Summer Wine (G)
4.55 The Planets (Part 7, final) (G)
5.30 Life in the Fridge Exists (G)
6.00 Strangers (Part 4) (G)

6.30 A Different World (G)
7.00 Your Choice (G)
7.15 Don’t Tell Me (G)
7.45 The Shadow Trader (Starting tonight, part 1) (PGR)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

9.20 Duet (AO)
9.50 CV (G)
Includes the 1989 Rheineck Rock Awards - live from The Powerstation, Auckland
12.00am Closedown

The Shadow Trader

The Shadow Trader (a two-part mystery thriller focused on money, power and a man’s vision of an ideal city - and the two women who confront his lethal game) premiered on Network Two (now TVNZ 2) at 7.45pm on the evening of Sunday 9 July 1989. The second part screened at 8.30pm on the evening of Tuesday 11 July that year.

Produced in-house by TVNZ’s now-closed drama department (the makers of the Auckland-based Gloss), the mini-series starred British actor James Faulkner (who later portrayed Uncle Geoffrey in Bridget Jones’s Diary) as David Constance, a dubious developer known for his aggressive approach to urban development. Constance’s ambitious waterfront project faced opposition from a rundown café, known as the Best Bet, which was cherished by its inheritors - two spirited women: Tammy (Annie Whittle), a working-class individual, and Joanna (Miranda Harcourt), an art consultant.

You can watch part one of The Shadow Trader via NZ On Screen by clicking its link above.

Today’s TV: Friday 9 July 1999 (Free-to-air channels only)
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
9.00 BBC World - BBC World News
9.30 5.30 with Jude (Rpt, G)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
10.00 Good Morning
Noon Midday (News)
12.35 BBC World, including (all times approx):
12.35 Europe Direct
1.30 BBC World News
2.00 World Business Report
2.15 Asia Today
2.30 Diagnosis: Murder (PGR)
3.30 As Time Goes By (G)
4.10 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
4.40 Te Karere
4.55 Emmerdale (G)
5.30 5.30 with Jude (G)
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Mitre 10 Changing Rooms (G)
8.00 Corbans Taste New Zealand (G)
8.35 Heartbeat (G)
9.40 The Bill (PGR)
10.10 Tonight (News)
10.35 Casualty (AO)
11.40 Sapphire & Steel (Rpt, PGR)
12.15am Late Movie - Too Beautiful for You (“Trop belle pour toi”) (1989) (AO)
A French film with English subtitles
1.45 BBC World, including:
1.45 The World Today
2.30 World Living - Talking Movies
3.00 BBC World News
3.30 HARDtalk
4.00 BBC World News
4.15 World Business Report
4.30 World Living - The Air Show
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 6am)

TV2
6.00am Creflo Dollar - Changing Your World
6.30 Kenneth Copeland - Believer’s Voice of Victory
7.00 Saban’s Adventures of Oliver Twist (G)
7.25 The Underdog Show (G)
7.55 The Why Why Family (G)
8.25 Magic Mountain (Rpt, G)
8.35 Bananas in Pyjamas (Rpt, G)
8.40 The Wubbulous World of Dr Seuss (G)
9.05 Barney & Friends (Rpt, G)
9.30 America’s Funniest Home Videos (G)
10.00 Infomercials
Noon The Young and the Restless (PGR)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 Promised Land (G)
3.00 Infomercial
3.30 What Now PM, including:
4.00 The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (Rpt, G)
4.30 Pokémon (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Rpt, G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 Woolworths Ready Steady Cook (G)
6.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Dawson’s Creek (PGR)
8.30 Friday Movie - Benny & Joon (1993) (Rpt, AO)
10.25 Ground Zero
12.25am Sessions at West 54th (G)
1.30 Movie - Traces of Red (1992) (Rpt, AO)
3.25 Behind the Scenes - “Forces of Nature” (Rpt, G)
3.50 Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (Rpt, PGR)
4.40 Squeeze (Rpt, PGR)
5.35 Ultraforce (PGR) (Continues to 6am)

TV3
6.00am Key of David
6.30 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (Rpt, G)
7.00 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
7.05 You and Me (Rpt, G)
7.30 Jungle Cubs (G)
8.00 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Rpt, G)
8.30 Teletubbies (Rpt, G)
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 The Love Boat (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Roseanne Show (PGR)
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
2.00 Ellen (Rpt, PGR)
2.30 You and Me (Rpt, G)
2.55 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.05 Teletubbies (Rpt, G)
3.30 Sonic Underground (G)
4.00 Disney’s Doug (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Brothers Flub (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
5.30 Home Improvement (Rpt, G)
6.00 3 News
7.00 Judge Judy (G)
7.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch (G)
8.00 Will & Grace (PGR)
8.30 Charmed (AO)
9.30 First Wave (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie - The Good Mother (aka “The Price of Passion”) (1988) (Rpt, AO)
1.05am Infomercials
2.05 Green Acres (Rpt, G)
2.30 Sunset Beach (Rpt, PGR)
First shown on TV4
3.15 The Urban Peasant (Rpt, G)
3.40 Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

TV4
7.00am Teletrader
9.00 Active Shopper Network
11.00 Infomercials
2.30pm Neighbours (Rpt, G)
3.00 Sunset Beach (PGR)
4.00 A Wedding Story (Rpt, G)
4.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class (Rpt, G)
5.00 Hang Time (Rpt, G)
5.30 Fashion Emergency (G)
6.00 Breakers (G)
6.30 USA High (G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Confessions (Rpt, G)
8.00 Fire Rescue: Emergency Response (PGR)
8.30 Wildside (AO)
9.30 Just for Laughs Stand Up (Starting tonight) (AO)
10.00 Comedy at Club 54 (AO)
10.30 Coogan’s Run (Final) (Rpt, AO)
11.05 Miami Vice (Starting tonight) (AO)
12.00am Infomercials
1.00 Closedown

Prime
6.00am TVSN (Continued)
7.00 Welcome to Canterbury
This programme repeats at 8am
9.00 Infomercials
10.00 TVSN
Noon Prime Living
1.00 Beauty and the Beast (Rpt)
A repeat screening of last night’s programme
2.00 Joyce Meyer - Life in the Word
2.30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
3.00 May to December (Rpt, G)
3.30 A Country Practice (Rpt, G)
4.30 Prime Living
5.30 Regional Variations
Family Affairs (NZ wide - except Hamilton and Christchurch) (G)
Prime Local News (Hamilton and Christchurch only)
6.00 Beauty and the Beast
7.00 WKRP in Cincinnati (G)
7.30 Cheers (G)
8.00 Two Fat Ladies (Rpt, G)
8.35 Alfred Kinsey (PGR)
9.35 arts etc - Naked Nashville (Part 3) (G)
10.35 Prime Living (Rpt)
A repeat screening of today’s programme
11.35 Welcome to Canterbury
12.35am TVSN (Continues to 7am)

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TV2 had Cops tv in the graveyard slot in 2003 before TV3 took over the rights around 2004-05 and later aired on C4/Four

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Today’s TV: Thursday 11 July 1985
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.15am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes before the start of TV One’s scheduled programming
10.30 The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.55 Tai Chi (Rpt)
11.00 Crossroads
11.20 The Wombles (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.35 Days of Our Lives (Rpt)
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
4.00 After School, including (all times approx):
4.05 The Littlest Hobo
4.35 Video Dispatch
5.00 The Flintstones (Rpt)
5.30 Swalk (Starting tonight, part 1)
6.00 Diff’rent Strokes (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 Kenny Everett Television Show
10.00 The Professionals (Rpt)
11.05 News
11.10 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 The Midday Movie - I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) (B&W) (Rpt)
1.55 Hi-de-Hi! (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
4.05 Thursday Afternoon Movie - Forbidden Cargo (1954) (B&W) (Rpt)
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Monkees (Rpt)
7.00 Love Thy Neighbour (Rpt)
7.30 Simon & Simon
8.30 Dynasty
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Tonight with Cathy Saunders
11.00 Prisoner (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown

Today’s TV: Tuesday 11 July 1995
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World, including:
6.00 The World Today (Continued)
7.00 BBC World News
7.05 Relative Values
7.55 Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
8.05 eTV, including:
8.05 Green Plans (Rpt, G)
9.05 Ethnic Cooking (Part 13, final) (G)
9.35 Insights (Final) (G)
10.00 Infomercials
11.00 The Flying Doctors (Rpt, G)
Noon The Midday Movie - A Town Torn Apart (1992) (Rpt, PGR)
1.55 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
2.25 Are You Being Served? (Rpt, G)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Posey Narkers (Rpt, G)
3.30 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.40 The Tomorrow People (G)
4.10 Emmerdale (G)
4.45 Te Karere
4.55 Strike It Lucky (Rpt, G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Coronation Street (Double episode) (G)
8.35 Tuesday Documentary - Heartland: Ruatāhuna (G)
Click the NZ On Screen link below to watch

9.40 Roughnecks (Part 4) (PGR)
10.45 Sportsnight
11.15 One Network News - Late Edition
11.25 Surgical Spirit (G)
12.00am The Real Rasputin (G)
1.00 BBC World, including:
1.00 BBC Newshour
2.00 BBC World News
2.10 World Business Report
2.25 Time Out - Holiday
3.00 BBC World News
3.10 Panorama
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! (Rpt, G)
6.35 Beany and Cecil (G)
7.05 Conan the Adventurer (Rpt, G)
7.30 Wacky Races (Rpt, G)
8.00 Shining Time Station (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.40 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
10.00 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Santa Barbara
11.30 The Susan Powter Show
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Ricki Lake (Rpt, PGR)
2.55 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
3.25 Son of a Gunn (G)
4.00 Animaniacs (G)
4.30 Batman: The Animated Series (G)
5.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (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 - Year of the Gun (1991) (AO)
10.45 Newsnight
11.15 The Untouchables (aka “The New Untouchables”) (AO)
12.20am Top Cops (AO)
1.20 Infomercials
2.20 WKRP in Cincinnati (G)
2.50 The Extremists (Rpt, G)
3.10 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
3.50 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.20 Ricki Lake (Rpt, AO)
5.15 Paradise Beach (Rpt, G)
5.40 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 Wild West COW-Boys of Moo Mesa (G)
7.55 My Three Sons (G)
8.25 That Girl (G)
8.55 Infomercial
9.25 The Andy Griffith Show (G)
9.55 Treasures Parent Time (G)
10.00 You and Me (G)
10.25 Infomercial
11.00 Yan Can Cook (G)
11.30 The Graham Kerr Show (G)
Noon The Gordon Elliott Show (PGR)
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.00 Give Us a Clue (NZ) (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 (PGR)
8.00 Skitz (PGR)
8.30 NYPD Blue (AO)
9.30 Manhunter (AO)
10.35 Nightline
11.05 Entertainment Tonight (PGR)
12.00am ABC World News Tonight
12.30 Dangerous Curves (AO)
1.35 Infomercials (Continues to 6.30am)

Sky Sport
6.30am ESPN Direct - Cycling
1995 First Union Grand Prix - highlights
7.00 Special Olympics
8.00 Kickboxing (ISKA 1995)
9.00 City Jam
9.30 ESPN Fitness Pros
10.00 Getting Fit with Denise Austin
10.30 International SportsCenter
11.00 Amazing Games
Noon Sky Sport - Rugby League
NZ v Australia - second test; full replay
1.30 Tennis
1995 Wimbledon Championships - women’s singles final; full replay
3.00 Yachting
1995 World Match Racing Tour - highlights
3.30 Rugby
Waikato v NZ Māori - game one; full replay
5.05 Motorsport
1995 Camel Trophy - highlights
6.00 AFL 1995 Highlights
7.00 Cycling
1995 Tour de France - stage eight; highlights
7.25 Windsurfing
1995 Alpha Classic - highlights
8.00 Sky Sportsweek
8.40 Cricket
England v West Indies - third test, day four; highlights
9.30 Golf
1995 European Tour - BMW International Open; highlights
10.30 1995 Air & Sea Show
11.30 ESPN Direct - Yachting
1995 World Match Racing Tour - highlights
12.00am Surfing
1995 Chiemsee Women’s Pro - highlights
12.30 Jetskiing
1.00 Baseball
MLB 1995 - Home Run Derby
2.00 Baseball (Old-Timers’ Classic)
3.30 Motorsport
1995 Indy Lights Championship - race seven; highlights
4.00 1995 Indoor Lacrosse League (Continues to 6am)

HBO
Noon Excessive Force (1993) (R16)
1.30 Mirage (1992) (R16)
3.00 Bugs Bunny’s Creature Features (1992) (G)
3.30 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1991) (G)
4.30 Cocoon (1985) (GY)
6.30 The Real McCoy (1993) (GA)
8.30 Westpac Showcase - King of the Hill (1993) (GY)
10.15 The Bodyguard (1992) (GA)
12.25am Late Night (R18)
12.55 The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag (1992) (RP13)
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
11.30 Moneyline
Noon Prime News
12.30 Crossfire
1.00 Larry King Live
2.30 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
2.45 World Sport
3.30 Business Asia

Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continued)
10.00 Mother’s Day
10.30 Growing Up Together
11.00 Jones & Jury
11.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Noon Coronation Street
12.30 Brookside
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 Cartoon Classics
6.00 Love Connection
6.30 Bewitched
7.00 Emergency Call
7.30 Knight Rider
8.30 The Ridge
9.30 China Beach
10.30 Night Court
11.00 Second City Television (aka “SCTV Network”)
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Free to air, continues to 10am)

Discovery
6.00am The New Explorers
7.00 Invention
7.30 Next Step
8.00 Wings
9.00 Natural World
10.00 Wildlife Chronicles
10.30 Profiles of Nature
11.00 Paleoworld
11.30 Archaeology
Noon The New Explorers
1.00 Jack Thompson Down Under
2.00 A World Away
3.00 World Class Cuisine
3.30 Biba’s Italian Kitchen
4.00 Caprial’s Café
4.30 Zoo Life
5.00 World Class Cuisine
5.30 Biba’s Italian Kitchen
6.00 Caprial’s Café
6.30 Zoo Life
7.00 Invention
7.30 Next Step
8.00 Wings
9.00 Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious Universe
9.30 Magical Worlds
10.00 Body Atlas
10.30 Wonders of the Universe
11.00 The Practical Guide to the Universe
11.30 Amazing Space
12.00am The Deep Probe Expeditions
1.00 Invention
1.30 Next Step
2.00 Wings
3.00 Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious Universe
3.30 Magical Worlds
4.00 Body Atlas
4.30 Wonders of the Universe
5.00 The Practical Guide to the Universe
5.30 Amazing Space (Continues to 6am)

Horizon Pacific Television (HPTV)
ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City, Southern
7.00am ATV ONLY - Welcome to Auckland
This programme repeats at 8am and straight after closedown
11.30 Infomercials (TV Shopping)
3.00pm BBC World News
3.25 Time Out - Film 95 with Barry Norman
4.00 BBC Newsday
5.30 Marketplace
6.00 BBC Newsday
6.30 Wildlife International (G)
COAST TO COAST ONLY - Dollars and Sense
7.00 News at Seven
7.30 Northwood (PGR)
8.00 BBC World News
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
4.00pm Infomercials (LV Martin’s Home Shopping Hour)
5.00 Susan Sells (G)
6.00 George Balani at Six (G)
7.00 TAANZ Travel Travel (G)
7.30 CTV’s World - Tonight
8.30 Full Time (G)
9.30 Blue Comic (AO)
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 Oderings Homes and Gardens (Rpt, G)
8.30 Bays Market (G)
9.00 Brideshead Revisited (PGR)
10.00 Farming Canterbury (Rpt, 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
Includes Backtrax (at 6.10pm), SoundCheck (at 7.30pm) and MAX News (at 8pm)
9.00 The Zone
12.00am Closedown

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What is Manhunter about?

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@Sheldon_Betteridge Hosted by John Walsh (from America’s Most Wanted), Manhunter was, in fact, a US documentary series about closed cases from the files of law enforcement agencies across the States. It featured actual footage, interviews and photographs.

1895

Today’s TV: Thursday 14 July 1977
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.30am Play School
Noon News
12.05 The Young and the Restless
12.30 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Today at One
1.25 Days of Our Lives
2.20 Rooms
2.45 A Family at War (Rpt)
3.40 Nice One, including:
3.40 Play School (Rpt)
4.10 Trick and Treat
4.15 The Up and Down, In and Out, Round About Man (Rpt)
4.30 Bewitched (Rpt)
5.05 Here Come the Brides (Rpt)
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes regional news from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Charlie’s Angels
8.30 When the Boat Comes In
9.30 News
9.40 Prime Time
10.10 Shades of Greene
11.05 News and Weather
11.10 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
1.00pm Search for Tomorrow
1.20 Love Thy Neighbour (Rpt)
1.50 Dinah!
2.30 The Bob Newhart Show
3.00 Chicaboom, including:
3.02 Romper Room
3.25 Chicaboom Special
4.00 Here’s Andy, including:
4.00 Getting Together
4.35 Westwind
5.00 Batman
5.30 The Partridge Family
6.00 First Edition (News)
6.30 Opportunity Knocks
7.00 Welcome Back Kotter
7.30 Get Some In!
8.00 Thursday Star Movie - Shalako (1968)
10.20 Late Edition (News)
10.30 The Thursday Conference
11.00 Eddie Charlton Versus the World
Followed by Closedown

Today’s TV: Tuesday 14 July 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.45am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes before the start of TV One’s scheduled programming
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kōhanga Reo (Rpt)
11.30 Cockleshell Bay
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.10 The Young and the Restless
1.05 Days of Our Lives
2.05 Doctor in Charge (Rpt)
2.35 Prisoner
3.30 Green Acres (Rpt)
4.00 German Scene (Rpt)
4.15 Emmerdale Farm
4.45 Bewitched (Final) (Rpt)
5.15 Dr Kildare (Rpt)
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
Includes regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 The Old Firm
8.00 Simon & Simon (Final)
9.00 Tuesday Documentary - Why Dogs Don’t Like Chilli: But Some Like It Hot
10.00 Hill Street Blues (Final)
11.00 Survivors (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
11.45am Teletext in Vision
This programme is unlisted, even though it is shown for 15 minutes prior to the start of TV2’s scheduled programming
Noon Magnum PI (Rpt)
12.55 The Pallisers (Rpt)
1.55 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.25 Tales of the Wizard of Oz
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sesame Street
3.55 After School, including (all times approx):
4.00 Emu’s World (Final)
4.29 Flintstone Frolics (Rpt)
4.55 The Children of Green Knowe (Part 3)
5.30 Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin (Part 3) (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Highway to Heaven (Final)
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Money-Go-Round
This programme moves to TV One next week (Tuesdays at 8pm)
8.30 The Golden Girls (Final)
9.00 Hollywood Wives (Part 6, final)
10.00 EyeWitness
Current affairs, WorldWatch and a news update
11.00 The Untouchables (B&W) (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

The final episode of Hill Street Blues

It’s hard to believe that 38 years ago today (Tuesday 14 July 1987 at 10pm), the final episode ever made of Hill Street Blues screened in New Zealand via TV One (now TVNZ 1),

For those of us who were there (though I wasn’t even born), watching it unfold, that night felt like the end of an era. The groundbreaking US series, which ran from 1981 to 1987, forever changed the landscape of TV drama and blended realism, complex characters and compelling storylines in ways that hadn’t been seen before.

The final episode, “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over”, was packed with the kind of drama that made Hill Street a cultural touchstone. The fire that gutted the station house was symbolic of the show’s raw, unflinching portrayal of the chaotic and often tragic realities of police work. Yet, in the midst of it all, the series’ signature mix of personal stakes and institutional conflict was on full display, with a gripping storyline that left fans at the edge of their seats.

One of the most unforgettable moments for me, as a television trivia expert, was the confrontation between Buntz and Shipman. The way Buntz - suspended, but still fiercely determined - held Shipman at gunpoint was a perfect reflection of his character’s defiance and moral complexity.

And then, of course, Buntz punching Chief Daniels in the face! A moment Ron Miller, the TV critic, called ‘marvelous’ in his farewell column. It was pure Buntz, through and through.

And let’s not forget the other threads of the episode: Goldblume working with a prostitute to bring down a serial killer; Belker finally dealing with his mother’s possessions (heartbreaking stuff!); and Bates and Sal the plumber sharing a dinner that hinted at something more - some sweet, quiet moments amidst the chaos.

But the final scene? The last words of the series - uttered by the night-shift desk sergeant (Lawrence Tierney) - are the perfect bookend to the show. Just a simple “Hill Street” into the ringing phone and that was it. It left a lingering sense of closure and continuity, a reminder that even as we say goodbye to the characters, the world they inhabit doesn’t stop. Life goes on, as does Hill Street.

What’s amazing to me is how relevant the show still feels today. Hill Street Blues didn’t just innovate TV - it set the stage for dramas like NYPD Blue, The Wire and countless others that followed. It was a perfect storm of incredible writing, acting and direction - 98 Emmy nominations over its run are proof of that.

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Today’s TV: Saturday 16 July 1983
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.00am The Muppet Show (Rpt)
8.25 What Now
9.30 Sportstalk
10.05 Get Smart (Rpt)
10.30 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
10.55 Our World - Roads to El Dorado: The Mojave Desert in the United States (Rpt)
11.50 Top of the Morning
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee - 633 Squadron (1964) (Rpt)
1.35 Sport on One
Includes rugby (British Lions v NZ - fourth test; live from Eden Park, Auckland), motorsport (1983 Superbikers) and woodchopping
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 Doug Henning’s Magic on Broadway
8.00 Hi-de-Hi!
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies - Earthquake (1974)
11.05 Entertainment This Week
11.55 News
12.00am Closedown

TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 Eight Is Enough
1.45 Saturday Afternoon Movie - Arise, My Love (1940) (B&W) (Rpt)
3.30 Survival - Survival in the Air
3.55 The People’s Court
4.20 More Real People
4.40 The Craft of the Weaver (Part 3)
5.05 Jessica Novak (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 News Review
6.30 Laverne & Shirley
6.50 Preview 2
7.00 Foreign Correspondent
8.00 The Mill on the Floss (Part 4)
8.25 Phew Maths
8.30 Parkinson
9.25 Saturday Playhouse - A Bit of Singing and Dancing
10.15 News
10.30 World Cinema - The Tree of Wooden Clogs (“L’albero degli zoccoli”) (1978, part 2)
An Italian (Lombard) film with English subtitles
12.00am Closedown

Today’s TV: Friday 16 July 1993
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.50am Te Karere (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the previous day’s bulletin
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 Tomorrow’s World
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
A repeat screening of the 7am bulletin
8.30 eTV, including:
8.30 Hidden Depths (Part 2) (G)
9.30 Pacific Century (Part 8) (PGR)
10.00 Film on One - Mon Oncle (My Uncle) (1958) (G)
A French film with English subtitles
Noon Brush Strokes (Rpt, G)
12.35 CBS Evening News
1.05 Sally Jessy Raphaël (AO)
2.05 Bergerac (Rpt, AO)
3.10 Neighbours (Double episode) (Rpt, G)
4.10 Home and Away (G)
4.40 Emmerdale (G)
5.10 Te Karere
5.20 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.30 Open Home (G)
8.00 Body and Soul (G)
8.35 Love Hurts (Part 10, final) (AO)
9.40 PrimeTime (News)
10.15 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (PGR)
10.45 Birds of a Feather (PGR)
11.25 Shrinks (Starting tonight, part 1) (AO)
12.55am Film on One - Slipstream (1989) (AO)
2.45 Closedown

Channel 2
6.35am Bill and Billy’s Funky Fables (Rpt, G)
7.00 Swans Crossing (Rpt, G)
7.30 James Bond Jr (Rpt, G)
8.00 The Wind in the Willows (Rpt, G)
8.30 Tiki Tiki Forest Gang (Rpt, G)
8.35 Wally Gator (Rpt, G)
8.40 eTV - Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.40 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Candid Camera (Rpt, G)
10.30 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (PGR)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (G)
2.30 Play School (Rpt, G)
2.55 Astro Farm (G)
3.05 The Son of a Gunn Show (G), including (all times approx):
3.15 Inspector Gadget (Rpt)
3.40 RollaBall
3.50 Jasecam
4.00 Tiny Toon Adventures (G)
4.30 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Cartoon Company (G)
5.30 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
6.00 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
6.30 Face the Music (Final) (G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Full House (Series return) (G)
8.00 Step by Step (Series premiere) (G)
8.30 Raven (Feature-length series premiere) (AO)
10.00 Picket Fences (PGR)
11.00 Aussie League on 2
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1993 - Parramatta Eels v Penrith Panthers; full delayed coverage
12.50am Friday Late Movie - Predator (1987) (Rpt, AO)
2.50 Movie - Ground Zero (1987) (Rpt, AO)
4.40 Brit Awards 1993 (PGR) (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.30am Tarzan (Rpt, G)
7.00 Garfield and Friends (Rpt, G)
7.30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Rpt, G)
8.00 Transformers (Rpt, G)
8.30 You and Me (Rpt, G)
8.55 Parent Time (Rpt, G)
9.00 The Magic Box (Rpt, G)
9.30 You Bet Your Life (G)
10.00 The Price Is Right (Rpt, G)
10.30 Empty Nest (Rpt, PGR)
11.00 Midnight Caller (Rpt, PGR)
Noon Donahue (Rpt, AO)
1.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show (Rpt, PGR)
2.00 ABC World News Tonight
2.30 Parent Time (G)
2.35 You and Me (G)
3.00 Disney Adventures, including:
3.00 Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Rpt, G)
3.30 TaleSpin (Rpt, G)
4.00 Darkwing Duck (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Wonder Years (G)
5.00 Entertainment Tonight (G)
5.30 5.30 Live
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Give Us a Clue (NZ) (G)
7.30 Star Trek: The Next Generation (PGR)
8.30 Mobil Sport
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie - Nightforce (1987) (Rpt, AO)
12.30am Swamp Thing (AO)
1.00 Closedown

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Powder Magazine
6.30 Sky Sport - Golf
1993 Open Championship - round one; live from Royal St George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, UK
9.00 ESPN Direct - Great Outdoors
9.30 Karate
10.00 Inside the PGA
10.30 Tennis
1993 ATP Tour - highlights
11.00 SportsCenter
11.30 Tenpin Bowling (1993 PBA Bowling Tour)
1.00pm Top Rank Boxing (Live)
3.00 Sky Sport - Snooker
1993 Matchroom European League - McManus v Parrott; highlights
4.30 Sportraits - Lee Trevino / Carl Lewis
5.00 Motorsport (1993 Atlas Rally)
6.00 Gillette World Sport Special
6.30 Tennis
1993 ATP Tour - highlights
7.00 Inside the Senior PGA
7.30 Golf
1993 Open Championship - round one; highlights
9.00 Cycling
1993 Tour de France - stage 11; highlights
9.25 Rugby League (Friday Night Football)
NSWRL/Winfield Cup 1993 - Parramatta Eels v Penrith Panthers; live from Parramatta Stadium
11.15 ESPN Direct - Tennis
1993 Davis Cup World Group - Germany v Czech Republic, fourth quarterfinal; live from Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle, Germany
5.00am Top Rank Boxing (Continues to 7am)

Sky News (CNN - schedule incomplete)
6.00am World Business Today
7.00 BBC News (6pm bulletin)
7.30 International Hour
9.00 World Business Today Update
9.30 Showbiz Today
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
3.30 Showbiz Today
5.30 Moneyline
6.00 Worldwide Update
6.30 CNN & Company
7.00 BBC News (9pm bulletin)
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.30 TVNZ - One Network News
A delayed telecast of TVNZ’s 6pm news bulletin
9.00 Larry King
10.00 Moneyline
10.30 Crossfire
11.30 Business Day
12.30am Business Asia
1.00 Larry King
3.30 CNN & Company
4.00 News Hour

Sky Movies (HBO)
Noon A Street to Die (1985) (GA)
1.30 Alice (1990) (GA)
3.15 The Fire-Raiser (1986) (G)
5.00 The Twelve Chairs (1970) (G)
6.35 Box Office America (G)
7.00 Postcards from the Edge (1990) (GA)
8.45 Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) (R16)
10.20 HBO Video Jukebox
10.35 Friday After Dark - Eden (1992, parts 18 & 19) (R18)
11.30 Playboy Late Night (R18)
12.25am The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (R16)
2.20 Coopersmith (1992) (RP13)
3.40 The Linguini Incident (1991) (RP16)
5.25 Romantic Comedy (1983) (R13) (Continues to 7.15am)

1897

Today’s TV: Sunday 19 July 1970
from The Press

NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Sunday Matinee - Man in the Moon (1960)
3.57 Football
1970 Scottish Cup Final - Aberdeen v Celtic; highlights
4.37 The Infinite Pacific
5.43 Headline News and Weather
5.46 Sexton Blake - The Case of the Gasping Goldfish (Part 1)
6.10 Rugby
Transvaal v NZ - tour match; highlights
6.32 Inter-Action
7.00 Network News
7.10 Weather and Local News
7.18 Country Calendar
7.34 The Moiseyev Ballet
8.34 The World of Wodehouse
9.04 Newsbrief
9.06 Dr Finlay’s Casebook
9.55 Search for Tomorrow
10.25 The Pre-Raphaelite Revolt
10.54 Late News and Weather
11.01 Closedown

Today’s TV: Saturday 19 July 1980
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.00am Turf Talk
10.35 Of Course You Can Do It
11.00 Rugby League
1980 Tooth Cup - quarterfinal one (Eastern Suburbs Roosters v Penrith Panthers); highlights
Noon News
12.02 Saturday Matinee - Daring Game (1968)
1.45 Sport on One
Includes tennis (1980 Wimbledon Championships - men’s doubles final), racing from the US (1980 Belmont Stakes), firemen’s competition and rugby
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 12 Bar Rhythm ‘n Shoes
8.00 Saturday Night at the Movies - Zorba the Greek (1964)
10.45 Steve and Eydie: From This Moment On
11.40 News
11.45 Closedown

TV2
Noon Search for Tomorrow (Double episode)
1.00 Song by Song (Part 4)
1.55 Saturday Afternoon Movie - The Young Pioneers: Sky in the Window (1978)
3.45 Celebrity Charades
4.05 Eight Is Enough
5.00 The Brothers (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 Sports Review
6.30 Laverne & Shirley
7.00 CHiPs
8.00 Benson
8.30 Miss Universe 1980
10.30 News
10.45 Saturday Late Cinema - The Invasion of Carol Enders (1973)
12.00am Closedown