The show used to get similar treatment in Melbourne, it used to be on very late Sunday night but also for a while got a 6am run… one extreme to the other!
It was hosted initially by Anna McMahon but then Fiona Crawford took over towards the end of its run.
Today’s TV: 8.9.1988, Brisbane
Source: TV Week
I don’t think SBS stuck with Brookside for very long, did they? I’m not sure when it started and finished on SBS or whether they ran it from episode one (Nov 82 in the UK). That synopsis implies they are a couple of years at least behind the UK - though it was only shown twice a week there in the 80s so SBS could have caught up quite quickly.
The synopsis for Home and Away is obviously wrong - the programme never had episode titles!
I think SBS started Brookside in 1985 or 86 (EDIT: It was actually 26 January 1987), initially weeknights at 6.00. I remember watching a few episodes but don’t remember anything much other than it was set in some suburban cul de sac? Bit like Neighbours?
I’d say it must have. Every episode that week has the same title When The Bough Breaks, with the week starting with Roo (Justine Clarke) going into labour. The following week’s episodes were titled The Cradle Will Fall., and the next week Down Will Come Baby.
The nursery rhyme theme for titles obviously ran out because a couple of months later, for the week 14-18 November the episodes were titled Dealing In Futures. I’ve never watched Home And Away with any regularity so perhaps the titles didn’t appear on screen?
I know Neighbours used to have episode titles a few years ago. They were (AFAIK) usually clever puns about the storyline or characters focused on that week.
Brookside was set in a suburban new-build cul-de-sac (in Liverpool), but that’s where any similarities to Neighbours ended. In its early days it dealt with social issues - some characters had moved there from upmarket areas, others came from social housing and were owning their first home. Much of the early episodes dealt with the tensions between residents from differing backgrounds, and explored social issues such as unemployment, “fiddle jobs”, unionism in Thatcher’s Britain, drug use and general larrakin behaviour. It was seen as the most realistic of the UK soaps and often broke the mould - featuring the UK’s first pre-watershed lesbian kiss, amongst other controversial storylines. Later it tended to feature more sensational plots, such as explosions, sieges and incest - some of which werent so well received. It ran for 21 years in the UK.
As for Home and Away, it certainly had no episode titles onscreen - this is the first I’ve heard of such titles existing. Intriguing!!
Today’s TV: 10.9.1978, Brisbane. Ten years to the day before TVQ0 became TVQ10
Source: TV Week
Today marks the 61st anniversary of the launch of television in Australia, in particular TCN9 in Sydney.
The TV listing for that first week:
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Today’s TV: 16.9.1961, Perth
Source: TV Times
Four Corners at 10pm on a Saturday is odd, although TV was so early everything would have been fairly popular surely?
Pretty much. I don’t know anything of the logistics but I wonder too if the show was barely in the can in Sydney that day before a copy was flown over to Perth, maybe necessitating a later airtime.
Although it’s not clear if the episode aired in Perth was the same as the one that aired on the east coast the same night.
Canned Fruits Corner, showing how to make canned pears with rice cream. I should buy some canned pears and canned rice cream and try that.
Today’s TV: 19.9.1974, Sydney:
Source: TV Week
Perfect Match would return in 1991 under the name Blind Date.
With the upcoming AFL Grand Final, a look at coverage in “enemy territory” (NSW and Canberra, in this case) from Saturday 24 September 1977, from TV Times-Coastal edition
ABC
1.00 The Big Ball Game
2.00 Sportsview (1977 World Rowing Championships/Rugby Grand Final Preview and Game/Turf Racing Daily Double/Australian Rules Preview/Race & Football Roundup/Canoeing)
5.35 Pot Black (snooker from the BBC)
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News
7.15 Sports Review
7.30 Quest 77
8.25 Four Corners
9.20 News/Weather
9.30 (Canberra/Wagga/Griffith) VFL Grand Final
(rest of NSW) Movie “Cheaper by the Dozen” (G)
10.55 (rest of NSW) VFL Grand Final (last half; I presume by the earlier start time, the whole game aired in Canberra, Wagga and Griffith?)
ATN7 Sydney
7.00 Funshine
9.00 MNOS
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Cher
1.00 Movie "Abbott and Costello in Society (G/bw)
2.30 VFL Grand Final
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Gorilla (G)
7.30 Movie “Prisoner of Zenda” (G)
9.29 America’s Cup Report
9.30 Movie “The Legend of Lizzie Borden” (AO)
11.30 Movie “Commandos Strike at Dawn” (A/bw)
TCN9 Sydney
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoons
7.30 Huckleberry Hound
8.00 Hey! Hey! It’s Saturday
11.00 TV Form Guide
noon Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Sail a Crooked Ship” (G)
2.30 Movie “Branded” (G)
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Voyage to the the Bottom of the Sea
6.00 News
6.30 Leyland Brothers Trekabout (G)
7.30 Barnaby Jones (A)
8.30 Movie “Carry On Again, Doctor” (A)
10.15 Big Valley
11.15 Spyforce
12.30 Movie “The Severed Arm” (AO)
2.00 Movie “Disciple of Death” (AO)
3.15 Movie “in the Year of Our Lord” (A)
5.00 Gideon’s Way (bw)
TEN10 Sydney
Movie Marathon airs in early morning
7.35 Mothers-in-Law
8.00 Home Affair
9.00 Right On
11.00 Love on a Rooftop
11.30 Animal World (G)
noon Movie “Anything Goes” (G)
2.00 Laredo
3.00 Run, Joe, Run
3.30 Primus
4.00 Junior Jury
4.30 What in the World
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 News
6.30 Wonder Woman (G)
7.30 Movie “Charro” (A)
9.25 Movie “Assault on a Queen” (G)
11.15 Movie “The Fallen Sparrow” (A)
NBN3 Newcastle
7.55 You Say the Word
8.50 Here’s Humphrey
9.40 Racing Selections
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Star Soccer
12.55 Wrestling
1.50 Documentary
2.05 Movie “Land of the Pharoahs” (G)
3.50 This Week Has Seven Days
5.35 Thrillseekers
6.00 News/Weather/Sport
6.30 Wonder Woman (G)
7.30 David Frost & the Unions: Can Australia Survive?
8.30 Shannon’s Mob
9.25 BHP Report
9.30 Tonight on the Town
10.30 Movie “Master Stroke” (A)
12.05 Movie “High Season for Spies” (A)
WIN4 Wollongong
8.00 Fun Club
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Sonny & Cher
12.55 Joe the Gadget Man
1.00 Daniel Boone
2.00 Movie “Beneath the 12 Mile Reef” (G)
3.50 Cisco Kid
4.10 Lost Islands
4.35 Rovers
5.05 Young Talent Time
6.00 News/Sports/Weather
6.30 Laverne & Shirley (G)
7.00 Rhoda (G)
7.30 Mary Tyler Moore (G)
8.00 Barney Miller (A)
8.30 Movie “The Sins of Rachel Cade” (A)
10.38 America’s Cup Report
10.40 Movie “The Impersonation Murder Case” (A)
CTC7 Canberra
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Grandstand (Racing Roundup/World Masters Snooker)
2.15 VFL Grand Final
5.00 Community Billboard
5.05 Waltons (G)
6.00 News
6.30 Good Times (G)
7.00 Laverne & Shirley (G)
7.30 Bionic Woman (A)
8.30 Kojak (AO)
9.30 Police 7
9.35 Movie “The Chase” (AO)
11.50 Meet Your Local Member
11.55 Star Trek
CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo
5.00 Oral Roberts
5.30 Wrestling
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Market Report
6.35 Reg Lindsay’s Country Homestead
7.30 The Practice (G)
8.00 Don’t Drink the Water (G)
8.30 Weather
8.35 Paul Hogan
9.30 Movie “The Wild Party” (AO)
11.00 Freedom from Hunger
MTN9 Griffith
2.28 VFL Grand Final
5.00 Wrestling
5.50 Making Man
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Cartoon
6.35 as CBN/CWN
NEN9 Tamworth/ECN8 Taree
1.00 Four Winds to Adventure
1.20 Movie “The Lion and the Horse” (G)
2.45 Living Tomorrow
3.00 Wall of Mouths (G)
3.50 Flintstones
4.15 Lost Islands
4.40 Black Beauty
5.05 Batfink
5.30 Ugliest Girl in Town
5.55 Wotsa-Name Show
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Donny & Marie (G)
7.30 On the Buses (G)
7.55 Countryside Affair
8.00 Royal Command Variety Performance (G)
9.50 Movie “The Mohicans” (A)
NRN11 Coffs Harbour/RTN8 Lismore
4.00 Variety Italian Style (other airtimes in NSW/Canberra…Sunday 8.55am on NBN, Sunday 11am on WIN, Sunday noon on TEN10)
5.00 Almost Anything Goes
6.00 News
6.30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
6.35 Donny & Marie (G)
7.30 Happy Days (A)
7.55 Laverne & Shirley (A)
8.20 Hawaii Five-O (A)
9.15 Movie “The Night of the Generals” (AO)
Source: Listener In-TV
YouTube: Gezza1967
No idea what that match could be. I’ll see if I can do a bit more digging. Probably put up as a spoiler to the VFA on Channel O. Speaking of which, Port Melbourne are in another Grand Final tomorrow.
Today’s TV: 28.9.1974, Brisbane/South East Queensland (DDQ/SDQ and WBQ) and Northern Rivers/Gold Coast (RTN):
Source: TV Week
The 1974 VFL Grand Final is on BTQ7 in Brisbane, live from Melbourne. But no coverage on the regional channels except for ABC in Queensland screening a replay late on Sunday night. (ABC NSW had its replay late on Saturday night)
Victorian viewers were still denied being able to see the Grand Final live on TV. The VFL reportedly had a $50,000 price tag for live coverage of the Grand Final, to be split between ABC and HSV7. ABC only committed up to $12,500 and HSV7 would not go above $25,000.
The Victorian government were asked to make up the difference but they refused.
The ABC had paid $10,000 for the NSW Rugby League grand final the previous week.
Source: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KtFaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MpIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6362%2C5860827
It would be 3 more years until Melbourne got the GF live, Seven reportedly paid $100000 for the game, then did the same for the replay the next week.
Why was the Grand Final never shown live until 77? and why the change? NSWRL always had the GF live if i’m right.
