Looking at what was on air back in '09 makes me feel old.
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Huh?
So much good stuff has been posted in this thread lately, Iâm just catching up. Long post incoming!
Ahh, the day after my birthday. 
Anyone out there whoâs got the 20/4/1995 TV guide for Sydney will have a special place in my heart! 
Haha, I could imagine online shopping addiction being a topic on a show like Dr Phil! 
Eric Pearce and Peter Hitchener present the news direct from their living rooms? 
This Afternoon on Nine (one of the networkâs biggest ever regrets) wouldâve been axed by the time that 16/7/2009 rolled around?
Also judging by that program synopsis, it appears that 4pm kids program âThe Shakâ had their major format relaunch (originally presented in a magazine format like predecessor Hot Source, but The Shak was relaunched into this weird, more sitcom-themed thing?) by this point in time.
Thereâs quite rightly, a lot of commentary here and elsewhere online about how TV used to be so much better than it is now. But surely I canât be the only one whoâd actually prefer to watch Thursday Night Football (or when itâs on, Gogglebox) than of any of the primetime programs on Seven or Nine in that 2009 Thursday night guide?!
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I hate you. World Championship Wrestling was still huge and airing on the day I was born. I always thought you were at least a decade older given your knowledge of television history.
Thereâs a show on Seven Iâd forgotten about. Their excruciating attempt at a Footy Show style entertainment show at 7.30pm with a comedian so bad his name has been permanently erased from my memory and Cecelia Yates whose biggest claim to fame was being a reporter on Wombat and a starring role in a notorious tampon ad.
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Ahhhhh Full Frontal. What a great show that was.
We need shows like that back. You can shove Married At First Sight up your arse, we need sketch comedies back on our screens.
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Iâll take that as a compliment.
Although Iâve built my knowledge of television history up through a number of sources over the years, members like yourself and @TelevisionAU who were actively watching TV during those nostalgic days of five main channels have significantly helped play a part in that education!
Oh my, even just the synopsis of âRugby Leagueâs biggest partyâ sounds like a trainwreck!
Could be Terry Hansen? http://www.australiannetworkentertainment.com/terry_hansen.htm
Found the ad:
I agree.
Surely thereâs some up and coming comedians out there whoâd have a field day roasting our current politicians and the so-called ârealityâ programs that dominate the schedules on commercial TV?!
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even when it was just four
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Or just two if youâre in the country.
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that was me at Christmas time. Hello, GMV6 territory 
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I was always excited to get a taste of regional television in Mudgee, Coffs Harbour and the NSW central coast on the few holidays we took around NSW as a child. The novelty wore off in a day or two when you realised these stations were airing shows that youâd seen on metro stations months before.
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I also looked forward to reading the country TV Week 
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Closest youâll get is short run shows like Kinne Tonight which were all made for Facebook clips
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Kinne isnât even in the same league as Full Frontal and Fast Forward. Even Comedy Inc is several classes above Kinne. Perhaps if Kinne had the budget and resources those shows had heâd be able to emulate the quality and attention to detail.
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Itâs going for a whole different market too itâs literally made for social clipping and yes the budget was laughably small
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I didnât mind the show and got a bit of a chuckle out of some of the skits but I found it became a bit repetitive and didnât bother to keep watching after the first few episodes.
Has anyone got Sydney TV Guides for 28/11/1994 (the day Ricki Lake debuted on Network TEN) and 14/07/1995 (my 3rd birthday lol)?
Melbourne TV listings: Monday, July 19, 1993
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Faces of Culture
6.30 Photographic Vision
7.00 Understanding Newspapers
7.30 Accounting
8.00 Out Of Empire
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Ferryboat Fred
9.30 Play School
10.00 Return to Magic Library
10.15 Read All About It
10.30 Look Up
10.45 Tales from the Blue Crystal
11.00 Concepts in Science
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Making Their Mark
1.00 The Investigators
1.30 A Question of Survival
2.00 Landline
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Johnson & Friends
4.40 Fireman Sam
4.50 Raggy Dolls
5.00 Afternoon Show (Alvin & the Chipmunks/Vidiot)
6.00 Only Fools & Horses
6.30 TVTV
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Holiday
8.28 ABC News
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media People
9.28 ABC News
9.30 Absolutely Fabulous
10.00 Review
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Running: Gold Coast Marathon highlights
12.00 Joint Account
12.30 Australia Television News
1.00 The Manageress
2.00 Movie âAge of Innocenceâ
3.30 Vintage
4.00 I Love Lucy
4.30 Doctor Who
5.00 Marketing: Theory & Practice
5.30 Accounting
HSV7
6.00 Gravedale High
6.30 Agroâs Cartoon Connection
9.00 The Book Place
9.30 Sons and Daughters
10.00 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie âPromises to Keepâ
2.00 Perry Mason
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 My Three Sons
4.00 Disney Adventures
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Real Life
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Danielle Steelâs Crossings (conclusion)
11.10 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard
11.40 NBC Today
1.40 Movie âLook Whatâs Happened to Rosemaryâs Babyâ
3.30 Stat
4.00 The Champions
5.00 Bone Breakerâs Mountain
GTV9
6.00 Entertainment Tonight
6.30 ITN World News
6.55 Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Hereâs Humphrey
9.30 Ernie & Denise
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 Whatâs Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Ray Martin at Midday
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Supermarket Sweep
4.00 My Two Dads
4.30 Wonder World!
5.00 Happy Days
5.30 Paradise Beach
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Murphy Brown
8.00 Love & War
8.28 Crimestoppers
8.30 Switched at Birth (conclusion)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 21 Jump Street
12.00 IndyCar World Series (from Toronto)
2.00 Baseball: American All-Star Game
5.00 Teech
5.30 The Sullivans
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6.00 Neighbours
7.00 Bionic Six
7.30 Ren & Stimpy
8.00 Bobbyâs World
8.30 Mulligrubs
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
12.00 Santa Barbara
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Live It Up
4.00 Henderson Kids
4.30 Totally Wild
5.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.00 Jeopardy!
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Hinch
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Columbo
10.30 Ten Eyewitness News
11.00 The Flying Squad
11.30 Movie âNotoriousâ
1.35 Movie âIslands in the Streamâ
3.30 Parenthood
4.00 Prisoner
5.00 General Hospital
SBS
3.35pm Itogi (Russia)
4.15 TV Ed
4.45 English at Work
5.15 Little Missy (Brazil)
5.50 FYI (in Arabic)
6.00 Cycling: Tour de France 1993
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dateline
7.30 Timewatch (BBC documentary)
8.30 Masterpiece âLight Yearsâ (a profile of Olive Cotton)
9.30 Movie âThe Nasty Girlâ (Germany)
11.05 Fine Cut âMemories and Dreamsâ
12.35 Cycling: Tour de France 1993 highlights
1.05 close
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Todayâs TV: 17.7.1977, Brisbane
QTQ9âs Sunday night movie is The Sound Of Music. And most likely the local TV premiere of said movie, too. It was a film that took years to come to TV. When it first aired in Sydney and Melbourne in 1977 it rated an average of 54 across both cities.
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It aired on Wednesday, July 20 1977 at 7.30 on Nine in Sydney and peaked on 63.4%. Only an episode of Roots had rated higher up to that point in the year.
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Same day as in Melbourne. So it looks like Brisbane got it before them!
Actually, according to The Canberra Times, CTC7 in Canberra had it on Sunday 3 July
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