I don’t remember Wilma The Witch. I would’ve been watching Miss Marilyn, Marty and Emu in those days.
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Melbourne TV listings: Friday, July 27, 1990
from The Age
ABV2
7.00 Square One Television
7.33 Dennis the Menace
7.55 Wonderful Wizard of Oz
8.20 Sesame Street
9.20 PGR
9.30 Play School
10.00 Words & Pictures
10.15 Into Music
10.35 Read All About It
10.50 Finders Seekers
11.10 For the Juniors
11.30 Kaboodle
12.00 Festival of the World: Butterflies & Warriors
12.30 In Transit
1.00 PGR
1.50 Masterworks from the World’s Great Museums
2.00 Quantum
2.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 Jimbo & the Jet Set
5.00 Ghosts of Motley Hall
5.30 Doctor Who
6.00 Goodwill Games (highlights)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Countrywide
8.28 ABC News Update
8.30 Movie “The Prisoner of Zenda”
10.10 ABC News
10.20 Goodwill Games (highlights)
11.20 NBA Basketball: New York v. Detroit
12.50 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Mama’s Family
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 Still the Beaver
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends
10.00 Beverly Hillbillies
10.30 People’s Court
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Emoh Ruo”
2.00 Perry Mason
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Mr. Belvedere
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Home and Away
7.00 Hinch
7.30 The Golden Girls
8.00 Open All Hours
8.30 Movie “South Pacific”
11.40 NBC Today
1.40 Ascent of Man
2.35 Rituals
3.00 Generations
3.25 Fanny by Gaslight (conclusion)
5.20 Family Medical Centre
5.45 CSIRO: The Resarchers
GTV9
6.00 The Monchichis
6.30 ITN World News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In Melbourne Today
10.30 General Hospital
11.30 Barney Miller
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Diff’rent Strokes
4.00 M.A.S.K.
4.30 KTV
5.00 Bugs Bunny Show
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “Police Academy 3: Back in Training”
10.15 Robbo’s World Tonight
11.15 MTV
2.00 Movie “Buck & the Preacher”
4.00 Sorry
4.30 The Charmings
5.00 Gentle Ben
5.30 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Centurians
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Good Morning Australia
8.55 Ten’s Billboard
9.00 'Til Ten
10.00 Mulligrubs
10.30 Ten Morning News
11.00 Another World
12.00 Santa Barbara
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Carson’s Law
3.30 Gimme a Break!
4.00 That Girl
4.30 Double Dare
5.00 The Munsters
5.30 Charles in Charge
6.00 Ten Evening News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 Baywatch
8.30 Movie “Ladyhawke”
10.35 Ten News
10.40 Movie “Romance on the High Seas”
12.40 Secret World
1.00 Movie “Stiletto”
3.05 Movie “Trauma Centre”
5.00 Bellamy
SBS
12pm Vremya
12.40 close
3.00 TV Ed
4.00 Kaleidoscope
4.30 The Electric Company (US)
5.00 Speaking for Myself
5.35 International Cookbook
5.50 Little Missy (Brazil)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Asia Report
7.30 Lenny Henry Show (UK)
8.00 Tonight
8.30 Great Performances “The Meeting”/“William Forsythe at Work”
10.20 Eat Carpet (close at 12.30am)
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I didn’t realise ABC was showing NBA highlights in 1990! It would have been the start of the Michael Jordan era right?
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Not a single slice of Home Shopping programming anywhere!
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Jordan era in terms of being the best in the game started earlier, but team success came a year later (Detroit would sweep Portland in 1990, but the Bad Boys as they were known were swept in the Eastern Conference Finals a year later). Indeed in America this year would be the last that CBS would be the main telecaster (many of the ABC Games of the Week here in Australia were TNT games) with NBC taking over from 1991.
St.George scored a narrow 28-26 win at Lang Park against the Broncos virtually ending Brisbane’s finals chances.
Bears on the back of Daryl Halligan’s boot won 22-18. Sign of the times though in Melbourne as the previous season saw this game telecast live at 3PM into the city against live AFL.
Coverage for the Hawks vs Saints NBL game was produced by Prime TV and distributed across the 7 network. This match was one of 4 played on the Saturday night, with games in Brisbane (where the Gold Coast Rollers knocked off the Bullets by 2 points) and Perth (Wildcats beat the Kings by 5) being shown on the same night on delay. Not sure if the Spectres beating the Newcastle Falcons was shown into Melbourne on a late night replay either. As for the game itself the Saints got an upset win at the Snakepit by 4 thanks to 36 points from import Greg Stokes and 34 from Andrew Parkinson, who was only one of a pair of Saints players from the 1991 roster (bench player and current Boomers coach Andrej Lemanis was the other) to make the merged South-East Melbourne Magic team for 1992. The Saints would only win 2 more games in their history.
As for the AFL, the Crows vs Swans game was notable for a late Barry Mitchell goal to silence the crow fans, and that it was the last appearance in the AFL for Warrick Capper. In the early game the Bears won thanks to Carlton inaccuracy and 5 goals from Roger Merrett.
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Melbourne TV listings: Sunday, July 27, 1997
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.00 Madeline
7.30 Cro
8.00 Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
8.35 Dog Tracer
9.00 Return to Jupiter
9.30 Netball: Commonwealth Bank Trophy
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise (from Leicester, UK)
11.30 Wrestling with the Big One
12.00 Landline
1.00 The Last Governor (part 4)
2.00 Orson Welles: Ghost Story
2.30 R.E.M. Rough Cut
3.30 Express
4.00 Between the Lines
4.30 Howard Goodall’s Organ Works
5.00 Rugby-Super League: Hunter v. Paris
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Pie in the Sky
8.20 ABC News-Late Edition
8.30 Melissa
9.25 Leonard Bernstein’s New York
10.20 Compass
11.10 For Love or Money
11.15 The Peter Sellers Story: I’m Not a Funny Man (final)
12.15 The House of Eliott
1.20 Movie “Marry Me”
3.00 Australian Studies
3.30 Management in Action
4.00 Astronomy
4.30 Chemistry
5.00 French in Action
5.30 Anthropology
HSV7
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Jesus in the Movies
7.00 ZooLife with Jack Hanna
7.30 A*mazing
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
8.30 Face to Face
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Sportsworld Footy Panel
12.00 AFL Game Day
2.00 AFL: West Coast v. Geelong
5.00 AFL Match of the Day
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Who Dares Wins
7.00 Home Improvement
7.30 Police, Camera, Action!
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
8.30 Pandora’s Clock (part 1)
10.35 The Making of “Con Air”
11.05 Movie “Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771”
1.00 NBC Today
2.00 NBC Meet the Press
3.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Movie “A World Apart”
GTV9
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 Anglican Television
7.00 Hot Science
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 The Footy Show
12.00 Sports Sunday
1.30 The Racing Show
2.00 The Golf Show
2.30 Mr. Merlin
3.00 Movie “A Walton Wedding”
5.00 Touched by an Angel
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Animal Hospital
7.00 Kids (the New Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW; Keno at 7.29)
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie “One Way Ticket”
10.40 Cricket: England v. Australia (4th test)
3.30 Bob Uecker’s Wacky World of Sports
4.00 Minor Adjustments
4.30 F1: German Grand Prix
ATV10
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Sword Fish
7.00 Magic School Bus
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 News Week
8.30 Meet the Press
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 NBL All Stars: America v. Australia
1.00 German Super Tourers Championship (round 4)
1.30 Australian Rally Championship (round 4)
2.00 RPM
3.00 Super Tourers (round 4; from Amaroo, NSW)
5.00 Ten News
5.30 I Dream of Jeannie
6.00 Moesha
6.30 The Nanny
7.00/7.30 The Simpsons
8.00 Seinfeld
8.30 Movie “Everything to Gain”
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Shadows of the Heart (part 1)
1.30 A Year to Remember
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Ukrainian News
8.00 Arabic News
8.55 Oto Polska
9.00 Apo Tin Ellada
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Whose Child is This?
11.30 Indoor Soccer: Alitalia Futsal National Challenge
12.30 Basketball: Junior Women’s World Championship
1.30 Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Business Monks (France)
4.00 English at Work
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 The Secret Life of Machines
6.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Tales from Oceania
7.30 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
8.00 Plants & Men: A History of Medicine
8.30 TV World “Baka”
9.30 Movie “Heart of Stone” (Germany)
10.55 The Human Race (Canada; part 1 of 4)
11.50 Red Capitalism
12.50 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
Channel 31
5.30pm Regards from Greece
6.30 Neos Kosmos Report
7.00 A Holy Mountain
7.30 It’s Country Today
8.30 Taipei Youth Folks Sports Show
9.30 Music Special (close at 11pm)
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31 always had this limited programming hours back then? I recall during weekends they’d often have announcements/sponsorships bulletin board thing running over the weekend plus local footy.
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for the first few years of C31’s existence they have always had limited programming hours of 4-5 hours a day. They used to have harness racing from Moonee Valley on Saturday nights, and also they screened lectures from RMIT and midweek race meetings in daytime hours when they are not broadcasting normal programmes. The rest of the time it was sponsorship/billboard/community announcements on the screen and Fishcam.
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When they first started they were also only on air 5 nights a week. Regular programming Monday to Thursday, and harness racing on Saturday night. Fridays and Sundays had no schedule at all.
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Today’s TV: 26.7.1979, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
Special Report on ATV0 Eyewitness News: “You Eat Too Much!” 
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Strange seeing Shirl’s Neighbourhood listed on Seven - as it was on Nine in Brisbane.
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I only ever associated it as a Seven show. It was made at HSV7 and sold to ATN7 (Fairfax). At that time I believe Fairfax also owned QTQ9.
QTQ9 also used to show Sound Unlimited (later Sounds) from ATN7 in the 1970s.
Although Shirl’s Neighbourhood was shown on SAS10 in Adelaide, even though ADS7 was a sister station to HSV7 (both owned by HWT). So despite the appearance of networks, there were a lot of anomalies when comparing different cities. That all really changed in the 1980s when networking became more sophisticated and ownership structures changed.
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Based on comments to this video, Wombat was on Seven in Brisbane at 4pm.
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11 am on 7: “I’ve got Gardenitis”
AFAIK, this program was produced by BTV6, Ballarat.
BTV produced several programs that aired on metro TV, “Sounds of Sunday” was one that got national exposure.
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You are correct. Laurie Ryan is Stephen Ryan’s d, dad, former host of Gardening Australia. Here’s a brief clip and some more info about the programme.
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That title always stuck in my memory but I never saw the show. Great to get some info on it now
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Melbourne TV listings: Friday, July 29, 1988
from The Age
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I didn’t get to watch too much TV during our family country holidays, but I always looked forward to seeing a station ident or the news.
During a school trip, I started humming the NBN3 We’re With You song. I think my school friends thought I was weird.
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Was this the last Olympics to have shared coverage in capital cities?
Also surprised to see NNN at 6pm. I always thought it was 6.30pm on weekdays before the mid 80s.
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This was the year of the failed News Centre Nine experiment. Henderson’s bulletin was still struggling at 6.30pm after the experiment was aborted. Seven’s bulletin was convincingly beating them at 6.30pm so Nine took a chance and moved the bulletin to 6pm only to find some strong competition from the first half of Eyewitness News and The Beverly Hillbillies which was winning the slot. Although they’d eroded Ten’s news audience at 6pm after a few weeks, the decision was made to move the bulletin back to 6.30pm by October because Roger Climpson’s Seven National News had become the most watched news in Sydney by a considerably increased margin.
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