Today’s TV: 13.8.1976, Sydney
It was meant to be the launch of ABC’s new adult comedy Alvin Purple, but it got bumped at the last minute by order of management. It made a belated debut the following Friday.
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You would be right, her profile on the 9news website:
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Today’s TV: 16.8.1993, Northern Territory
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Melbourne/Tasmania, Friday 16 August 1991
from TV Week-Tasmania edition
ABC
7.00 Astroboy
7.25 Dr. Snuggles
7.30 Dennis the Menace
7.52 Mr. Fixit
7.57 Vicky the Viking
8.20 Sesame Street
9.20 Parental Guidance Recommended
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.20 Northern Australia Documentaries
10.40 How We Used to Live (1902-1925)
11.00 A New World (For Sure)
11.20 Landline
noon Six Australians
12.30 The Investigators
1.00 Parental Guidance Recommended
1.50 Masterworks from the World’s Great Museums
2.00 Parliament Question Time: Senate
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 Grandma Bricks
5.00 Afternoon Show (Alvin & the Chipmunks/Press Gang)
6.00 Count Duckula
6.25 Roger Ramjet
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 7.30 Report
8.00 A Big Country (profiling Gunnedah’s Mickie Maas, who organized the community’s Australia Day activities)
8.29 News Update
8.30 Movie “Lust for Life”
10.30 ABC News Late Edition
10.20 Andrew Denton: Live & Sweaty
11.40 Movie “Red Badge of Courage” (PGR)
12.55 Rage
Seven Melbourne
6.00 All-New Popeye Show
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection (Captain N/Flintstones/Silverhawks/Shirt Tales)
9.00 ALF
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends
10.00 Superior Court (PGR)
10.30 Mama’s Family
11.00 Eleven AM (PGR)
noon Movie “Here Comes Mr. Jordan” (PGR/bw)
2.00 Perry Mason (PGR/bw)
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 Family Ties
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4.30 Blockbusters [C]
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Home & Away
7.00 Hinch
7.30 Golden Girls (PGR)
8.00 Family Matters
8.30 AFL: Adelaide-St. Kilda (from Football Park)
11.30 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (AO/Ben Elton hosts)
12.30 NBC Today
2.30 Play Your Cards Right
2.55 Generations (PGR)
3.20 Bergerac (PGR)
4.30 Australian Ark
Nine Melbourne
6.00 Sanford & Son
6.30 ITN World News
6.55 Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In Melbourne Today
10.30 National Nine News
11.00 What’s Cooking
11.30 Entertainment Tonight (PGR)
noon Today with Ray Martin (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Young & the Restless (PGR)
3.30 Diff’rent Strokes
4.00 Just the Ten of Us
4.30 Goodsports [C]
5.00 Bugs Bunny
5.58 Keno
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Burke’s Backyard (Agro is a guest)
8.30 World Figure Skating Championships (from Munich)
10.35 The World Tonight with Clive Robertson
11.35 MTV (AO)
2.05 Movie “Covergirl” (AO)
3.45 Movie “His and Hers” (bw)
5.30 Sullivans
Ten Melbourne
6.00 Muppet Show
6.30 Morning Edition News
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 'Til Ten (PGR)
10.00 Mulligrubs
10.30 Aerobics Oz Style
11.00 Another World (PGR)
noon Santa Barbara (PGR)
1.00 Bold & the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Donahue (PGR)
2.30 General Hospital (PGR)
3.30 Robin’s Nest (PGR)
4.00 Zorro
4.30 Double Dare [C]
5.00 Coca-Cola Power Cuts
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 Star Search: The New Generation
8.30 Movie “Kickboxer” (AO)
10.30 Second Edition News
11.00 Friday the 13th: The Series (AO)
mid. Movie “1984” (AO)
2.05 Movie “Wanda Nevada”
4.05 Movie “Hooch” (PGR)
Tas TV
6.28 Thought for the Day
6.30 ITN World News
6.50 Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Tasmania Today (PGR)
10.00 Best of What’s Cooking
10.30 Focus on Living
11.00 Eleven AM (PGR)
noon Today with Ray Martin (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Young & the Restless (PGR)
3.30 Wheel of Fortune
4.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4.30 Goodsports [C]
5.00 Neighbours
5.30 Home & Away
6.00 Sale of the Century
6.30 Tas TV News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.29 Keno
8.30 Hey Dad
9.00 Paradise (PGR)
10.00 AFL: Adelaide-St. Kilda
11.30 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (AO)
12.30 Movie “The Lonely Man” (AO)
2.10 Thought for the Day
2.12 close
Southern Cross
6.28 Thought for the Day
6.30 ITN World News
7.00 Today
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.30 Aerobics Oz Style
10.00 Bold & the Beautiful (PGR)
10.30 Maude (finale)
11.00 Another World (PGR)
11.55 Australia in Profile
noon Midday with Ray Martin (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Santa Barbara (PGR)
3.25 Wheel of Fortune
3.55 Cartoons
4.00 New Beaver
4.30 Double Dare [C]
5.00 Home & Away
5.30 Neighbours
6.00 Sale of the Century
6.30 Southern Cross Network News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Simpsons
8.00 Hey Dad
8.29 Keno
8.30 Growing Pains
9.00 MacGyver (PGR)
10.00 AFL: Adelaide-St. Kilda
11.25 Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (AO)
12.20 Movie “The Committee”
2.10 Thought for Today
2.12 close
SBS
2.15-3.00 Vremya (Russian news; not subtitled)
3.30 TV Ed
4.00 English at Work (English/Spanish)
4.30 Sports Machine
5.00 Kaleidoscope
5.35 International Cookbook
5.50 Little Missy (Brazil)
6.30 World News
7.00 The Brain “Madness” (UK)
8.00 Dateline
8.30 Connections “Tong Tana: A Journey to the Heart of Borneo” (Sweden; in English)
9.55 Movie “When the Bird Sings” (AO; Yugoslavia, in Croatian)
11.05 Take Two
12.05 Movie “Venizelos” (PGR)
2.15 close
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Unusual error. Is that how it appeared in printout GTV and TAS TV?
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Melbourne TV listings: Friday, August 18, 1989
from The Age
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With 3 networks of television crammed into one, I’d forgotten how jampacked those solus station schedules used to be.
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It was interesting that both Tas TV and Southern Cross were only showing the second half of Adelaide v St Kilda live.
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one must not interrupt MacGyver or Hey Dad fans 
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Today’s TV: 17.8.1959, Sydney
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I see Play Your Cards Right at 2.30am on HSV7. Was this repeats of the 80s game show with Ugly Dave Gray, or something else with the same title? I don’t think the show was remade in the 90s, and can’t imagine it being scheduled in the middle of the night if so.
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Seven used to run repeats of that Ugly Dave Gray game show late at night regularly around that time. I don’t know why because it was one of the more forgettable game show formats to grace our screens in the 1980s.
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must have been very cheap to re-run. Like how HSV (not sure about Sydney) always used to re-run Catch Us If You Can and Celebrity Tattletales over the summer during the 1980s. Neither were successful in their original prime-time runs, but they got repeated enough times in daytimes over summer.
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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, August 19, 1997
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Australian Studies
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Discovering Psychology
7.30 Time to Grow
8.00 Neverending Story
8.25 Funnybones
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.15 Look Up
10.30 Tales from the Blue Crystal
10.45 Naturally Australia
11.00 Nature Watch Digest
11.15 Wilkommen!
11.30 Behind the News
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 English Have a Go
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Media Watch
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Arthur
4.55 William’s Wish Wellingtons
5.00 The Ferals
5.25 Henry’s Cat
5.30 Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
5.55 Gogs
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Inside Story “The Big Parade”
9.25 ABC News
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
10.25 ABC News
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Dr. Findlay
12.00 Australia Television News
12.25 The Prize
1.30 Birds of a Feather
2.30 Scotland Yard
3.00 Australian Studies
3.30 Alles Gute
3.45 Study Skills
4.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
4.30 French in Action
5.00 Visual Arts
5.30 Anthropology
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise [News]
7.00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Golden Girls
9.30 A Country Practice
10.30 News (the Green Guide listed Tom Brokaw as anchor; was the Seven Morning News still on the air?)
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Intimate Terror: Angel of Death”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Tale Spin
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Bewitched
5.00 Concentration
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Better Homes & Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors (Oz Lotto at 8.28)
8.30 Blue Heelers
9.30 Witness
10.35 Seven Nightly News
11.05 The Black Adder (return)
11.45 Oh, Doctor Beeching!
12.15 Space: Above & Beyond
1.15 NBC Today
3.15 Boys from the Bush
4.05 Cop Shop
5.05 Dateline NBC
GTV9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 Daybreak (includes Business Today)
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 The Flying Doctors
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s 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 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4.00 Challenger
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Catch Phrase
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 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8.00 Drew Carey Show
8.30 World’s Dumbest Criminals
9.00 Real TV
9.30 Spin City
10.00 Pearl
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Star Trek: Voyager
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Sports Comedy
2.00 Movie “Caine Mutiny Court Martial”
4.00 Legends of the American West
4.30 Bob Uecker’s Wacky World of Sports
5.00 UFO Diaries
5.30 Vanessa
ATV10
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Teknoman
7.30 Eagle Riders
8.00 Rude Dog & the Dweebs
8.30 Where You Find the Ladybird
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Highway to Heaven
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Oprah Winfrey
2.30 Monday to Friday
3.30 Brady Bunch
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 MAS*H
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Party of Five
8.30 Melrose Place
9.30 Big Sky
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 World Superbike Championships (from Austria)
1.30 Cops
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 Japanese News
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Vremya
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “Two-Headed Giant” (Turkey)
2.05 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 English at Work
4.00 World Sports (repeat)
4.30 Gourmet Ireland
5.00 Happiness (Brazil)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Front Up
8.00 A Fork in the Road
8.30 Cutting Edge “Death of the Solar Temple”
9.30 Movie “Zentropa” (Germany)
11.20 Movie “Man & Woman” (Korea)
1.05 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
Channel 31
6pm Sputnik
7.00 Entre Todos
7.30 Turkish Panorama
8.00 Peace, Love & Harmony
8.30 Vivace
9.00 C’est la Vie
9.30 Thespitarian
10.00 Black 2 Sugars: Aboriginal Australia
10.30 Melbourne Music Show
11.30 close
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NBC Nightly News near-live was in that timeslot
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Must have been a Crow fan knowing that Plugger would bring up his 100th goal for the season (having missed at least the first 5-6 games) and the Crows would get pumped.
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Today’s TV: 19.8.1979, Victoria
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Someone was looking forward to 55 Days At Peking
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