I think reruns of Prisoner got that ball rolling but it used to run at 4am every morning or at least 5 days a week. Took them 2 years or so to get through all 692 episodes.
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If I recall correctly these episodes were advertised as Seinfeld the Black Label collection
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With GWN7 celebrating its 50th anniversary, here’s a look at WA TV from Thursday 29 March 1973!
Source: TV Week-WA edition
ABC
8.00 Sesame Street
9.05 For Schools: Health "Keeping Food Clean"
9.25 Play School
9.55 For Schools: English "Hamlet: The Readiness is All"
10.45 For Schools: History 1917-1967 "Lenin’s Revolution"
11.10 For Schools: Behind the News
11.30 For Schools: Geography "Physiography of WA: The Darling Ranges"
12.10 For Schools: Guten Tag Wie Geht’s
12.30 For Schools: Hold Down a Chord
1.00 For Schools: Art Around Us "Sculpture"
1.25 For Schools: Here in the West
1.50 For Schools: Art of the Film "The Film as Communication"
2.20 For Schools: Making Music "The Turtle Drum"
2.40 For Schools: Seeing & Doing "Glass Manufacture"
3.00 For Schools: We Play Recorders
3.20 Flowerpot Men "Bellows"
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.25 Sesame Street
5.20 Cattanooga Cats
6.05 Ensign O’Toole "Operation Physical"
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Dog Training (Perth, Geraldton, Carnarvon)
6.55 Regional News (other regions)
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.25 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Dad’s Army "Getting the Bird"
8.30 Search for the Nile “The Great Debate” (A)
9.30 Mid-Evening News
9.35 Cousin Bette “Family Angel” (AO)
10.20 Around Folk
10.50 Weather
10.52 close
TVW7 Perth
10.00 Kindy
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Beauty & the Beast, pt 1
noon Movie “No Down Payment” (AO)
2.00 Days of Our Lives (A)
2.30 Temptation
3.30 Beauty & the Beast, pt 2
4.00 Children’s Seven
4.05 Perils of Penelope "North Pole Peril"
4.40 Tarzan "Day of the Golden Lion"
5.45 Family Affair “Family in Paradise” (pt 2)
6.20 Tom’s Bingo
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Stars of the Future "Pick of the Pops"
7.30 News Headlines
7.35 Please Sir “Old Fennian’s Day” (A)
8.15 On the Buses “The Best Man” (A)
8.40 News Headlines
8.45 Homicide "Lover Boy"
9.45 The Bold Ones “The Doctors: Crisis” (A)
10.45 Burke’s Law “Who Killed Cornelius Gilbert?” (A)
11.45 Greatest Fights of the Century
mid. close
STW9 Perth
10.30 Marvellous Munchkin
11.00 Junior World
11.30 Magic Circle Club
noon General Hospital (A)
12.30 Movie “Stranger in My Arms” (A)
2.15 Peyton Place (A)
2.45 Three on a Match
3.15 Password
3.45 Tom & Jerry Cartoon Club
4.30 Man from UNCLE "The Round Table Affair"
5.30 Get Smart "Witness for the Execution"
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Gilligan’s Island "Three Million Dollars or Less"
7.00 New Moneymakers
7.30 News Headlines
7.35 Marcus Welby, MD “Labyrinth” (A)
8.35 Dr. Murray Banks: What to Do Until the Psychiatrist Comes
9.35 Movie “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (AO)
11.30 My Name’s McGooley "Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby"
mid. close
BTW3 Bunbury/GSW9 Albany
5.30 Popeye Cartoon
5.35 Bugs Bunny
6.00 Wells Fargo "Doc Dawson"
6.25 News
6.35 Partridge Family "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Partridge"
6.59 Weather
7.00 $25,000 Great Temptation
7.30 MAS*H "I Hate a Mystery"
8.00 On the Buses “The Inspector’s Pet” (A)
8.30 Number 96
9.00 Nichols “Gilley vs Hansen” (A)
9.55 Theatre of the Stars “Time for Elizabeth” (A)
10.45 Point of View
10.50 News/close
VEW8 Kalgoorlie
6.05 Batman "The Curse of Tut"
6.30 News/Weather
6.40 McHale’s Navy "Scuttlebutt"
7.05 Flying Nun "Papa Carlos"
7.30 Iron Horse "T is for Traitor"
8.25 Division 4 "So It’s a Living"
9.20 Sporting World
10.20 Program Summary
10.25 close
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I wonder what was the point of splitting Beauty And The Beast, a one-hour program, into 2 parts.
Thursday 17 March 1966, from TV Week “NSW edition”.
Sydney and Wollongong are listed together:
And Newcastle (NBN3 and ABHN5) was listed in a separate section:
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probably more timely a few days ago but anyway here is Friday 12 March 1982 from TV Week “Southern NSW” edition which also included (for some reason) NBN3 – possibly just to fill up a spare column.
Also included were Victorian stations GMV6, AMV4 and ABC Victoria given their significant coverage overlap into NSW
This particular night was the TV Week Logie Awards and curiously all stations are showing varying end times for the event, which I guess translated to they really had no idea when the show was supposed to end and most likely went overtime anyway.
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Also interesting that all the regional stations showed Sale of Century at 7. I wonder if they were all showing the same episode, though …
In the earlier years I’d say they weren’t the same episode… only because I remember watching an early ep on BCV8 around 1980 or 81 but recognised it as one I’d seen earlier in Melbourne. As the years progressed the regionals may have caught up or just chopped out a chunk of eps to sync up with the metros.
Those days saw Nine shows like The Mike Walsh Show, 60 Minutes and Sale Of The Century pretty much shown across all regionals. Nine probably offered a good price for a bulk number of stations which would have helped them secure national sponsors… such as BHP which used to sponsor 60 Minutes.
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TV listing for Monday 20.3.1989 for Brisbane, the launch of Seven’s The Bert Newton Show and daytime soap The Power The Passion:
Source: Sunday Sun TV Extra (Brisbane)
Of course both new shows didn’t have a great run. The Bert Newton Show (which marked his return to regular TV after nearly 4 years) struggled to get rating shares higher than 2s or 3s up against The Midday Show which was getting 18s or 19s (or higher).
The Power The Passion got similar ratings to Bert Newton’s show and was soon bumped from its daytime slot to late nights to allow The Bert Newton Show to take up the full 1.5 hours to go up against Midday.
The Power The Passion featured a few well known faces, such as George Mallaby, Jill Forster, Kevin Miles, Alan Cassell and Jane Clifton and did at least manage to score one “discovery”, that of model turned actor Julian McMahon who of course went on to greater things.
The failure of The Power The Passion was the last of a handful of daytime soaps attempted by Australian TV - or Seven in particular. They all had spectacularly short lives, seems that Aussie audiences would have much preferred the vaseline-lensed daytime soaps from the US.
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Thanks for these. What was “TV AM” on 7?
From what I’ve read in the past it was a business news/news program.
10 still on the left hand side of the listing a year after they switched from the other side of the dial?
Also surprised that the networks were still attempting locally produced daytime soaps that late on considering US daytime soap figures had peaked in the early 80s, quite some time prior.
Morning news program hosted by John Barton and Kay McGrath. Produced at 7 in Sydney. It didn’t last long and McGrath went back to Brisbane after that to join Seven News there.
This was before Frasier became popular which was only the last few years of its run.
Today’s TV listing is 9 April 1962, 55 years ago, from Perth.
Not much stands out on this particular day. Schools programming scattered through the day on ABW2, with TVW7 not starting transmission until 4.45pm. TVW did commence weekday transmission earlier in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with local women’s shows like Today and Televisit plus the national show It Could Be You and the ATN7 serial production The Story Of Peter Gray
Typically, not a lot of Australian content to be found in prime time outside of news. Cafe Continental I think was a Melbourne or Sydney based production for ABC, and University Of The Air was on at 9.30pm.
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Some things have changed. Highway Patrol on 7 has moved from a 9:30 timeslot to 7:30.
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Found an old TV Week lying around so here’s some listings:
Melbourne – Thursday July 14, 2005
ABC
6:00 The Saddle Club
6:25 Potatoes and Dragons
6:35 Lizzie McGuire
7:00 Cyberchase
7:20 Rotten Ralph
7:35 Fantastic Flying Journey
8:00 The Koala Brothers
8:10 Pablo the Little Red Fox
8:15 Postman Pat
8:30 Play with Me Sesame
8:55 Poko
9:20 Funky Valley
9:25 Bananas in Pyjamas
10:00 Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
10:25 Backyard Science
10:40 Creature Features
11:05 Round the Twist
11:30 Kids in the Garden
11:35 Mentors
12:00 Midday Report
12:30 Something in the Air
1:00 Born and Bred
2:00 The Bill
3:00 Bananas in Pyjamas
3:05 Bambaloo
3:30 Play School
3:55 ToddWorld
4:05 Jakers!
4:30 Aliens Among Us
4:35 Tupu
5:00 The Worst Witch
5:25 Pigeon Boy
5:55 Flatmania
6:00 Doctor Who: State of Decay
6:30 Collectors
7:00 News
7:30 The 7:30 Report
8:00 Catalyst
8:30 DNA: Playing God
9:30 MDA: Second Chance – Part 3
10:25 Lateline
11:00 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Bridging the Gap
12:00 The Academy: Everyone’s Full Bottle Now
12:30 Movie: The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
2:10 Movie: The Dark Man (1951)
3:30 Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson: Car Trouble/Restaurant
4:00 New Eden
4:30 Movie: Penny Princess (1952)
SEVEN
6:00 Sunrise (HD)
9:00 Playhouse Disney
9:30 Passions
10:30 News (HD)
11:00 Temptation Island Reunion/Wedding Special
12:00 Movie: Crimes of Passion: Voice from the Grave (1996)
2:00 Blue Heelers: Broken Promises – Part 2
3:00 Home Improvement: My Son, the Driver
3:30 Who Dares Wins
4:00 Go Go Stop
4:30 News
5:00 MAS*H: Inga
5:30 Deal or No Deal
6:00 News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away (HD)
7:30 Las Vegas: The Lie is Cast (HD)
8:30 Lost: Do No Harm (HD)
9:30 The Amazing Race
10:30 Stargate Atlantis: Before I Sleep (HD)
11:30 Tour of Duty: Soldiers
12:30 Fight School
1:30 I’m Alan Partridge
2:00 Guthy-Renker
3:00 Brand Developers
3:30 USA High: Mother’s Day
4:00 NBC Today
NINE
6:00 National Nine Early Morning News
7:00 Today (HD)
9:00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (HD)
11:00 News
11:30 Fresh Cooking with the Australian Women’s Weekly (HD)
12:00 Dr Phil: Wedding Disasters
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Young and the Restless (HD)
3:00 Entertainment Tonight
3:30 Hi-5: World
4:00 [Hot] Source
4:30 National Nine News Afternoon Edition
5:00 Frasier: Halloween
5:30 The Price is Right
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 A Current Affair (HD)
7:00 Temptation
7:30 Getaway
8:30 This Is Your Life
9:35 The Footy Show
11:00 Nightline
11:30 Golf: British Open Golf 2005 (Live)
4:30 Late Show with David Letterman
5:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TEN
6:00 Totally Wild (HD)
6:30 Aerobics Oz Style
7:00 Cheez TV
8:30 In the Box
9:00 GMA with Bert Newton (HD)
11:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11:30 News
12:00 The Nanny
12:30 Seinfeld
1:00 Ready Steady Cook
2:00 The Oprah Winfrey Show: I Want My Child To Be A Star
3:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
3:30 Judge Judy
4:00 Totally Wild (HD)
4:30 The Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 News
6:00 The Simpsons: Homer the Great
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Big Brother
7:30 Everybody Loves Raymond: The Annoying Kid (HD)
8:00 Everybody Loves Raymond: She’s the One (HD)
8:30 Law & Order: SVU: Pixies
9:30 Law & Order: Trial by Jury: Truth or Consequences (HD)
10:30 News
11:00 Sports Tonight
11:30 Big Brother Up-Late
1:30 Bread
1:55 Video Hits Up-Late
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Joyce Meyer
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 Life Today with James Robison
5:30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
SBS
6:00 Cantonese News
6:20 Mandarin News
6:50 Filipino News
7:25 Italian News
8:00 Das Journal
8:30 Spanish News
9:20 Le Journal
9:55 Russian News
10:30 Greek News
11:30 Arabic News
12:05 Indonesian News
12:30 Business Report
1:00 Dateline
2:00 The Price of Aid
3:00 Subsonics
3:30 School Torque
4:00 World Sport
4:30 The Journal
5:00 PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Cycling: Tour de France Highlights
6:30 World News
7:00 World Sport
7:30 Bronski & Bernstein: Blue Eyes
8:20 Hotline
8:30 Storyline Australia: Trafficked – The Child Sex Trade
9:30 World News Tonight
10:00 Cycling: Tour de France (Live)
1:00 Temporary Close
5:00 WeatherWatch & Music
5:25 Japanese News
Source: TV Week Magazine
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I use to watch Passions on Prime during the early 2000s & still to this day I still can’t make heads or tails what Passions was about!
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With the Good Friday Appeal on today in Melbourne, here was the TV guide for the Good Friday Appeal in 1967, 50 years ago.
In those days the Appeal didn’t even get regional coverage, although 3DB which would have a radiothon all day could get picked up fairly well in country areas and would have got relayed too via 3LK (now 3WM) in Horsham, which was a relay station for 3DB in those days.
Source: Listener In-TV
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The battle between good and evil 
and Timmy!
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