I wonder if the move to 6.00 was also to get a half hour start on Seven in reporting the Olympic Games, which Nine covered aggressively despite entering into a pool arrangement with Seven and ABC for Olympics coverage. Similarly in Melbourne, Nine soon moved news back to 6.30 by the end of the year
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Apart from 1984 in Perth (who didnât have a Channel 10 for another 4 years) I would assume so.
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There have been the 2004 and 2008 Olympics with some events offloaded by Seven onto SBS
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Canberra TV listings: Saturday, August 1, 1987
from Canberra Times
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Todayâs TV: 31.7.1965, Adelaide
New channel SAS10 screens TV Spells Magic, the opening special from TEN10, Sydney.
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Melbourne TV listings: Monday, August 5, 1996
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Marketing: Theory & Practice
6.30 Discovering Psychology
7.00 First Edition
7.30 A Sense of Place
8.00 French in Action
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathicaâs Mathshop
10.15 Zardipâs Search for Healthy Wellness
10.30 Tales from the Blue Crystal
10.45 Naturally Australia
11.00 Concepts in Mathematics
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 Landline
2.00 GP
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Miffy
4.00 Play School
4.30 Jim Hensonâs Secret Life of Toys
4.45 Insektors
5.00 Genie from Down Under
5.25 Bangers & Mash
5.30 Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
6.00 Secret World of Alex Mack
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Fawlty Towers
8.28 ABC News Update
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.28 ABC News Update
9.30 Cardiac Arrest
10.00 Review: Popular Arts
10.30 ABC News-Late Edition
10.35 No Time for Tears
11.30 Australia Television News
12.00 Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg
12.25 Movie âSheâs Been Awayâ
2.10 Journey to the Dark Heart
3.00 Chemistry
3.30 Astronomy
4.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
4.30 Alles Gute
4.45 Study Skills
5.00 Accounting
5.30 Visual Arts
HSV7
6am Summer Olympic Games
(closing ceremony from 11am)
2.30 Newlyweds
3.00 My Three Sons
3.30 The Book Place
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Family Feud
5.00 Seven News at Five
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Friends
8.00 Almost Perfect
8.30 Summer Olympic Games (repeat of the closing ceremony)
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Star Trek: The Original
1.00 Telemall Shopping
2.00 NBC Today
4.00 Cop Shop (repeat)
5.05 Family Passions
GTV9
6.00 ITN World News
6.30 Daybreak (includes Business Today)
7.00 Today
9.00 Hereâs Humphrey
9.30 Mark Walberg
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 Whatâs Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Pacific Drive
4.00 New Adventures of Skippy
4.30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5.00 Whatâs Up Doc?
5.30 The Price is Right
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Water Rats
8.30 ER
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 Nightline
11.15 Pacific Drive
12.15 John Larroquette
12.45 Rugby League: Cronulla Sutherland v. Manly Warringah
2.40 Movie âThe Big Easyâ
4.30 Love & War
5.00 48 Hours
ATV10
6.00 Bewitched
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Fudge
7.30 X-Men
8.00 Dog City
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 Donahue
2.00 Oprah Winfrey
3.00 Monday to Friday
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie âTwinsâ
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 Heartbreak High
12.10 Movie âA Killing Affairâ
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 General Hospital
SBS
6.00 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Weatherwatch & Music
8.00 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Vremya
10.30 Oto Polska
11.00 The Journal
11.30 Weatherwatch & Music
12.00 English at Work
12.30 Movie âDanzonâ (Mexico)
2.10 Weatherwatch & Music
2.30 TV Ed
3.00 PAGE: Professional & Graduate Education
4.30 The Global Family
5.00 Out of Sight, Out of Mind (UK)
6.00 Happiness (Brazil)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Apollo 13: To the Edge & Back (US)
8.30 Masterpiece âDarker Than Blueâ
9.30 The Swine (Germany; part 1 of 3)
11.05 Fine Cut âWarsaw Uprising, 1944â (Poland)
12.20 Red Dyed Hair (Greece)
1.15 close
Channel 31
6pm TV Kurdistan
6.30 Macedonian
7.00 Russian Jews
8.00 Access News
8.30 Melbourne Musos
9.00 Julian Jones Live
10.00 Queer Zone
I have a question about My Three Sons: I checked many listings from the 1990s and it looks like Seven management liked this show a lot, because they put it on several timeslots throughout the day in that decade. Did the viewers watch this show?
Was probably very cheap. It used to be a long running summer afternoon filler on Nine
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They used to to the same with The Monkees.
Wholesome, inoffensive family sitcom. I used to watch just to see what happened to the eldest son after Ernie was adopted and he became the third son. It used to upset me that Mike was never spoken about or visited. It wasnât until the internet age that I discovered what became of him.
Seven used to screen Leave It To Beaver fairly regularly in those days, too. I watched a couple of episodes a few months ago and was struck by the simplicity of the storytelling.
Those shows painted a quaint picture of life in the â60s that was somehow appealing to me although Iâm aware it was a time of great social upheaval. I was probably yearning for a father figure in the mould of Ward or Steve Douglas.
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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, April 1, 1986
from The Age
ABV2
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 Kimba the White Lion
9.25 Magic Roundabout
9.30 Play School
10.00 The Bunjee Venture
10.23 Mr Men
10.30 Hedgerow House
10.55 Roger Ramjet
11.00 Night of the Narrow Boats
11.47 Table Tennis
12.00pm Four Corners (repeat of the previous nightâs programme)
12.55 ABC News
1.00 The Sunburnt Soul
1.25 Big Bird in China
2.30 The Amazing Adventures of Morph
2.43 The Story of the Wooden Train
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 Play School
4.30 Mr Squiggle and Friends
5.00 Astroboy
5.25 Roger Ramjet
5.30 Earth Watch
5.55 Danger Mouse
6.00 Edge of the Wedge (new youth culture programme)
6.30 Come and Get It (with Peter Russell Clarke)
6.35 Dr Who (Terror of the Autons Part 2, stars Jon Pertwee)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Focal Point (ABC documentary series: A Legacy of Violence)
8.30 Minder
9.25 Backchat (viewer feedback, you wonât see this these days!)
9.30 The Carleton Walsh Report
10.00 Australia Youâre Standing In It
10.30 Rock Arena (The Pointer Sisters Live in Paris)
11.30 Agony
11.55 Station Close
HSV7
6.00am Daywatch continues (from CNN)
7.00 Punky Brewster Cartoon
7.30 The Jetsons
8.00 Leave It To Beaver
8.30 Rocket Robin Hood
9.00 The Onedin Line
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00pm Midday Movie: Three Godfathers (1949 western starring John Wayne)
2.00 Cop Shop
3.00 The Man From UNCLE
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Heidi
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 The Goodies
6.00 Family Ties
6.30 Seven National News (with Mal Walden)
7.00 Day By Day
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Football: Fosterâs Cup match Essendon v Richmond (the Bombers won 18.6-114 to the Tigers 7.8-50)
11.15 Newsworld
12.00am News Overnight including NBC Today, Daybreak from CNN, Newsworld, Day By Day and Daywatch from CNN.
GTV9
6.00am Early Morning News
6.30 Today
9.00 Hereâs Humphrey
10.00 General Hospital
11.00 The Sullivans
11.30 National Nine Morning News
12.00pm The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 The Young and the Restless
3.30 The Lucy Show
4.00 Câmon Kids
5.00 The Young Doctors
5.30 Diffârent Strokes
6.00 National Nine News (with Brian Naylor)
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Cosby Show
8.00 Benson
8.30 Moonlighting
9.30 The Love Boat
10.30 News
10.35 Hawaiian Heat
11.35 Oh Madeline (US comedy starring Madeline Kahn)
12.05am Movie: Little Ladies of the Night (1976)
2.00 Movie: April Showers (1948 musical comedy, black and white)
3.50 Movie: The Reluctant Heroes (1971)
5.10 Bonanza
ATV10
6.00am Daybreak (with Ron Wilson)
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 Fat Cat and Friends
9.30 And Mother Makes Three
10.00 Another World
11.00 Good Morning Melbourne
12.00pm Movie: The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968, stars Shirley MacLaine)
2.00 News
2.30 Carsonâs Law
3.30 Silver Spoons
4.00 Off The Dish
4.28 Simon Townsendâs Wonder World
5.00 The Good Times
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 The A-Team
8.30 Prisoner (The Age on that day in its daily listings described it as âUnrelentingly depressing Australian drama serialâ)
9.30 Prince Andrew: Second Son
10.30 News
10.40 Are You Being Served? (Australian version starring John Inman)
11.10 Only When I Laugh
11.40 Sink or Swim
12.10am The Liver Birds
12.40 Buffalo Bill
1.10 Alfresco
1.40 Wyatt Earp
2.10 Station Close
SBS28
11.00am Cartoons: featuring The Adventures of Colargol (France) and The Mole and the Little Poppy Man (Czechoslovakia)
11.30 Greek: Language and People
12.00pm Bernadetta and Company (Italy)
1.00 Young Heroes (Hong Kong)
1.40 Temporary Close (Test Pattern)
5.30 Seeing is Believing
6.00 Beat Club (SBS series recalling the music of the 60s and 70s)
6.30 Rosa de Lejos (Argentina)
7.00 SBS World News
7.30 Close Up
8.00 Oshin (Japan)
8.30 Movie: The Secret of Nikola Tesla (Croatia)
10.20 Portrait: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany)
11.20 Station Close
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SBS showing foreign-language cartoons instead of foreign News in the mornings back then
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Todayâs TV: 1.8.1971, Sydney
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I remember this. Naomi Robinson and David Brown were part of this experiment.
Did this come out of Melbourne or Sydney?
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actual recording of SBS at 11am on April 1 1986:
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I think it might have been Sydney? Peter Ford (not the showbiz reporter) was the other newsreader.
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As Krusty once said âWhat the hell was that?â.
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Was Meet the Press locally produced by TCN9?
Not sure. Possibly.
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