Classic TV Listings

The world championships of Lawn Bowls from Frankston. Life has changed…

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Yeah, looks like it was used as filler programming for Perth. The last time I saw it airing on Seven in Sydney was in a 6am weekday slot in 2000

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Sydney TV: Sunday 20 January 2002
from Sydney Morning Herald

ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.30 Little Bear
7.55 Pingu
8.00 Li’l Elvis Jones & the Truckstoppers
8.25 Little Monsters
8.30 Angela Anaconda
8.55 Wildlife
9.00 Stickin’ Around
9.25 El Nombre
9.30 Andreas Scholl and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
10.30 Up in the Sky: Tracey Moffat in New York
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.35 It Ain’t Necessarily So
12.00 Best of Landline
1.00 Dead Easy Gardening
1.30 Message Stick
2.00 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (final)
2.50 Words with James Griffin: Michael Leunig
3.00 Benjamin Britten: The Hidden Heart
4.30 Why Sing?
5.00 The Artist’s Schindler
6.00 Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Island Life “Barrow Island”
8.25 News
8.30 Sunday Performance “Owen Wingrave”
10.05 Compass
10.35 New York: A Documentary Film
11.30 Beethoven Sonatas for Piano & Violin
12.20 Movie “Captain Boycott”
1.50 Movie “Maroc 7”
3.25 Death in Brighton
4.30 Australian Studies: Images of Australia
5.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
5.30 French in Action

Seven
6.00 One
6.30 The Bishop, the Chef & the Fisherman
7.00 Wipeout
7.30 Search for Treasure Island
8.00 Dumb Bunnies
8.30 Tabaluga
9.00 Boy Meets World
9.30 Magic Millions Carnival 2002
10.00 Australian Soccer: weekend highlights
11.00 Tennis: Australian Open (day 7)
6.00 News
6.30 Harry’s Practice
7.00 Ground Force
7.30 Two Thousand Acres of Sky
8.40 Movie “The Man in the Iron Mask”
11.30 Movie “This Boy’s Life”
1.45 NBC Today
2.45 NBC Meet the Press
3.45 Victor Paul
4.40 Telemall
5.35 Saved by the Bell: The New Class

Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 National Catholic Television
7.00 Challenger
7.30 Goodsports
8.00 Brian Naylor’s Australia
9.00 The Open Century (review of 100 years of the British Golf Open, between 1900 and 1999)
10.00 Movie “Happy Go Lovely”
12.00 Movie “A Brother’s Promise: The Dan Jansen Story”
2.00 Skiff Racing: World Series Grand Prix
2.20 Cricket: Australia v. South Africa (one-day; from Brisbane)
6.00 News
6.30 Cricket: Australia v. South Africa (cont’d)
10.15 Movie “Police Academy III: Back in Training”
12.00 Movie “Burning Season”
2.30 Movie “Absent Without Leave”
4.30 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5.00 Keynotes
5.30 Whose Line is it Anyway?

Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Hillsong Australia: Life is for Living
7.00 Silver Brumby
7.30 Thunderstone
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Video Hits
11.00 Chilli Factor
11.30 Fastbreak
12.00 Salt (the world of surfing)
12.30 Inside Sport
1.00 Party in the Park (from London)
3.00 Triathlon (round 2, from Canberra)
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 Personal Best
6.30 Crocodile Hunter
7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
8.00 What About Joan?
8.30 Movie “For the Moment”
10.55 News
11.25 Sports Tonight
11.55 Movie “The Heavenly Kid”
1.40 Video Hits
2.00 Danoz
3.00 Paykell (infomercial?)
3.30 Victor Paul
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 James Robison
5.30 Benny Hinn

SBS
6.00 L’Ahbarijiet
6.30 WeatherWatch & Music
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Visnyk Ukrainy
8.00 WeatherWatch & Music
8.55 Kalejdoskop
9.30 Esta Semana
10.00 Telegiornale Italiano
10.30 Italian Soccer: Serie A highlights
11.30 On the Ball
12.30 Tambu Island (Australia)
1.00 Motor Racing: 2002 Dakar Rally highlights
2.00 The Older, the Better (Netherlands, 3-part series; a team of American scientists who were successful in slowing ageing in human cells)
2.30 World Football (UK)
3.00 European Champions League highlights
4.00 Premier League: Manchester United v. Blackburn (replay)
6.00 Sounds of the Seventies
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Secrets of the Dead “The Jamestown Massacre”
8.30 Light Through Ashes “Great Yearning: Of Heretics & Saints”
9.15 Masterpiece “Nadine Gordimer” (South Africa)
10.10 Movie “Amor Bandido” (Brazilian drama)
11.50 Cop Stories “Johannesburg”
12.45 Speed Week
1.40 Premier League Replay
3.25 Soccer: Western Union World Football Replay
4.05 WeatherWatch & Music
5.15 Japanese News
5.50 Cantonese News

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That was a surprisingly strong lineup for kids shows on ABC for a Sunday. The Sunday lineup was usually filled with the not so good shows.

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Today’s TV: 20.1.1977, Western Australia

Source: TV Times

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Today’s TV: 20.1.1986, Melbourne


Source: TV Week

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Surprised ABC was still persisting with the dead “Summer National” branding into 1986

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Blankety Blanks repeats on both Nine and Ten (a few hours apart though).

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this would have pretty much been the last week for the National branding as (IIRC) ABC News was restored in each state from the following Monday (27th) and The 7.30 Report began on the 28th.

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Today’s TV: 21.1.1980, Melbourne

Source: TV Week

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For a brief period following the change of frequency, ATV would broadcast on both 0 and 10.

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Today’s TV: Friday 21 January 2011, Perth


Source: The West Australian.

The Simpsons would air for the final time at 6pm on Ten to make way for more news during its timeslot.

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Lethal Weapon on after the cricket, All was right with the world in 2011.

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No, as it went back to 6pm on Ten during late 2012.

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Are you scanning these onto your computer? You should be able to get a bit higher picture quality, some of these are hard to read.

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Today’s TV: 22.1.1971, Brisbane

Source: TV Week

QTQ9 appears to be in that phase between old and new logos, or TV Week just hasn’t got around to updating its ad inventory

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The tsunami relief match, watched it at the ground where there was power issues for about the first 30 overs or so (the scoreboard at the Northern “Hole” where the old Olympic Stand stood wasnt operating for a while). Only test nations not represented in the XII’s that day were the African teams (Zimbabwe had their off field issues, South Africa were playing England in a series which only meant Darren Gough who was only playing ODI’s at that stage was available from England. Bangaldesh’s representative Alok Kapali was made 12th man for the Asian team). Not sure if anyone else joined the regulars plus Waqar Younis in the commentary box (Pakistan were the test visitors that summer), but there was a couch type arrangement on the boundary in front of the Southern Stand where interviews were being conducted during the match, presumably with fundraising efforts in the forefront.

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Today’s TV: 23.1.1988, Brisbane

Source: TV Week

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I think by 1988, YTT was really struggling against Hey Hey It’s Saturday.

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Sydney TV: Monday 24 January 1994
from Sydney Morning Herald

Ray Martin debuts as host of A Current Affair. Neighbours returns for a new year. Another program launched on that day was Level 23 (Ten, 6pm), aimed at youths.

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