Today’s TV: 12.12.1959, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
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Today’s TV: 18.12.1962, Canberra
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Melbourne TV listings: Wednesday, December 24, 1997
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Astronomy
6.30 Chemistry
7.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
7.30 Rupert
7.55 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
8.00 On Christmas Eve
8.25 Anytime Tales
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Babar
10.25 Kitu & Woofl
10.30 Rugrats
10.55 Small Stories
11.00 Art Attack
11.15 Insektors
11.30 The Babysitter’s Club
12.00 Great Crimes & Trials of the Twentieth Century
12.30 The Twelve Days of Christmas
12.55 National Press Club
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.00 Play School
4.30 Adventures of Blinky Bill
4.55 William’s Wish Wellingtons
5.00 Captain Planet
5.25 Plasmo
5.30 Aaahh! Real Monsters
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The First Silent Night
8.30 Carols from Kings 1996 (simulcast with ABC Classic FM)
9.45 One Foot in the Grave Christmas Special
10.45 Keeping Up Appearances Christmas Special 1994
11.35 Movie “Bush Christmas”
12.50 Australia Television News
1.15 Movie “Penny Princess”
3.00 Time to Grow
3.30 Everybody’s Business
4.00 Accounting
4.30 Out of Empire
5.00 Earth Revealed
5.30 Destinos
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Jingle Bell Rap
7.30 Dumb & Dumber
8.00 The Jetsons
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A*mazing
9.30 Red Boots for Christmas
10.00 Silent Night, Holy Night
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Pacific Blue
12.00 Movie “Mary & Joseph: A Story of Faith”
3.00 Jolly Old St. Nicholas
3.30 Scrooge Koala’s Christmas
4.00 Total Recall
4.30 Brotherly Love
5.00 The Great Outdoors
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Who Dares Wins
7.30 An Australian Christmas at Darling Harbor
8.30 Movie “Christmas in Connecticut”
10.30 Seven Nightly News
11.00 Christmas in Vienna 1996
12.30 NBC Today
2.30 21 Jump Street
3.20 Movie “Yes Virginia, There’s a Santa Claus”
5.10 Dateline NBC
GTV9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Wonder World!
10.00 High Society
10.30 National Nine News
11.00 Entertainment Tonight
11.30 Movie “Other Women’s Children”
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Dave’s World
4.00 Challenger
4.30 Perfect Strangers
5.00 Growing Pains
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Our House (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Cybill
8.00 Can’t Hurry Love
8.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show: Christmas Special
9.00 Carols by Candlelight 1997
11.30 Land’s End
12.30 Late Show with David Letterman
1.30 Entertainment Tonight
2.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
3.00 Good Times
3.30 Barney Miller
4.00 Maude
4.30 20/20
5.30 Christmas: A Time to Forgive
ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney & Friends
7.00 Transformers: Generation II
7.30 Spider-Man
8.00 The Tick
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 The Love Boat
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Oprah Winfrey
2.30 Monday to Friday
3.30 C.O.P.S.
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Hogan’s Heroes
6.30 Roseanne
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 The Nanny
8.00 Oy to the World (The Nanny’s Christmas animated special)
8.30 Roar
9.30 New York Undercover
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Traditions of Christmas
12.00 Midnight Mass
12.30 Xmas Eve Candlelight Services
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 Japanese News
6.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Weatherwatch & Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “The Silence of Neto” (Guatemala)
2.15 Silent Night with Jose Carreras
2.50 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 Divine Magic: World of the Supernatural (US)
4.00 Circuses of the World (France)
5.00 Happiness (Brazil)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Mansion: Great Houses of Europe
7.30 The Movie Show
8.00 The Fast Show Christmas Special (UK)
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “Madonna & Child” (Philippines)
11.35 Movie “Four Only Children” (Italy)
1.15 Movie “Please Leave Your Husband” (Austria)
2.55 close
Channel 31
5.30pm Mansfield’s Melbourne
6.00 Tamil TV
7.00 Arab TV
8.00 Eastern Newsbeat
8.30 Freedom Express
9.30 The Loft Xmas Special
11.00 Core
11.30 close
Merry Christmas to all of you here at MediaSpy!
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I always remember as a kid in the 90s, channel 7 (HSV7) would always show Childrens Christmas programs throughout the day. This tradition seemed to phase out around the mid 2000s. However, they still show the traditional Christmas themed midday movies every year.
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The last few seasons ended up hidden out of prime time well after airing in the US. The series was well-past it’s used-by-date.
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Only five seconds out of the whole episode, lol.
That probably explains the double listing for Anthony Hudson across the two games of footy on Ten with only 30 mins gap between them. Would’ve been a 2pm start for the Carlton v Port match.
I remember An Australian Christmas at Darling Harbour being on Ten and then Seven for a decade. It raised money for Wesley Mission.
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Merry Christmas from the other side of the Pacific 
Here’s Melbourne listings from Christmas Day 1989 (which was a Monday), from The Age Green Guide (thanks to Canal 30 Buenos Aires for the tip)
ABC
11.00 Christmas Worship (Christ Church Anglican Church, Clarmont, Perth)
noon John Martin’s Christmas Pageant (from Adelaide)
12.45 Movie “Barnum” (G)
2.35 T-Bag’s Christmas Cracker (G)
2.55 Henry’s Cat “The Christmas Dinner” (G)
3.00 Swap Shop (G)
3.30 Ghosts of Motley Hall (G)
4.20 The Clown of God (G)
4.30 Billy’s Christmas Angels (G)
5.00 The True Gift of Christmas (ice skating show)
5.50 Raggy Dolls “Christmas Do Us” (G)
6.00 The Snowman (G)
6.25 The Red Balloon (G)
7.00 News/Sport/Weather (Peter Acfield)
7.20 The Queen’s Christmas Message (G)
7.30 Bread (PGR; Christmas episode of the BBC Britcom)
8.40 Season’s Greetings (PGR)
10.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message (G)
10.40 Movie “Act of the Heart” (PGR)
12.15 close
Seven
6.00 A Country Chrisymas (G)
7.00 Cartoon Connection (G)
8.30 Our House (G)
9.30 Fat Cat & Friends (G)
10.00 John Martin’s Christmas Pageant (G; same source as ABC)
11.00 Agro’s Christmas Story (G)
noon Yogi’s First Christmas (G)
2.00 Walt Disney’s World’s 1989 Very Merry Christmas Parade (G)
4.00 A Christmas Carol (G-C)
5.00 Press Your Luck (G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
6.00 News/Sport/Weather (Peter Mitchell/Simone Semmens)
6.30 Family Feud (G)
7.00 Hinch (G; Peter Luck hosts)
7.30 Beauty & the Beast “God Bless the Child” (PGR)
8.30 Movie “Scrooge” (G)
10.40 The Queen’s Christmas Message (G)
10.55 Duty Free Christmas Special (PGR)
mid. News Overnight (and Today)
2.00 East of Eden (pt 2/AO)
3.45 Night Heat (AO)
4.40 Superior Court (PGR)
5.05 On Trial (G)
5.35 Dirty Dancing (G)
Nine
6.00 Animals of Africa (G)
6.30 Secrets & Mysteries (G)
7.00 World News
7.30 Wackiest Ship in the Army (G)
8.30 Turn Round Australia (G)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey (G)
10.00 A Horse Called Jester (G)
11.00 Carols by Candlelight (G)
1.00 Movie “Gift of Love: A Christmas Story” (G)
3.00 Carols for Christmas (G)
3.30 The Story of the Other Wiseman (G)
4.00 Supergran & the World’s Worst Circus [C]
5.00 Happy Days (G)
5.30 Benson (G)
6.00 News/Sport/Weather (presenters not listed)
6.30 Countdown to Auckland (G; Commonwealth Games preview)
7.00 Growing Pains (G)
7.30 Webster “Man in the Red Flannel Suit” (G)
8.00 Head of the Class “On the Road Again” (G)
8.28 Crimestoppers
8.30 Movie “Roots: The Gift” (PGR)
10.30 The Queen’s Christmas Message
10.35 North & South II (pt 3/AO)
12.35 Ohara “Toshi” (PGR)
1.35 Movie “The Man in the White Suit” (G)
3.05 Movie “Nurse on Wheels” (bw/PGR)
4.35 Manhattan Transfer (G)
5.30 The Young Doctors (G)
Ten
6.00 Lassie (G)
6.30 Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (G)
7.00 New Gidget (G)
8.00 That Girl (G)
8.30 Puttin’ on the Hits (G)
9.00 Stableboy’s Christmas (G)
11.00 Arise Awake Tricia Watts (G)
11.30 Christmas Tree Train (G)
noon Movie “Miracle on 34th Street” (colorized/G)
2.00 Movie “The Christmas Gift” (G)
4.00 Double Dare [C]
4.30 C.A.B. [C]
5.00 Munsters Today (G)
5.30 The Best of Perfect Match (G)
6.00 News/Sport/Weather (presenters not listed)
6.30 Muppets’ Family Christmas (G)
7.00 The Henderson Kids II (G)
7.30 Wonder Years “Christmas” (G)
8.00 Married…with Children “Guys and Dolls” (PGR)
8.30 Movie “A Smoky Mountain Christmas” (G)
10.30 Movie “Christmas in the Crossfire” (PGR)
12.30 WrestleMania (AO)
1.30 Masquerade (PGR)
2.30 Movie “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle” (AO; profile of the Sex Pistols)
4.00 Emergency! (G)
5.00 Dallas (PGR)
SBS
1.35pm Christmas with Pavarotti (G/Canada; from Notre-Dame Cathedral, Montreal)
2.30 Movie “Strike Me Lucky” (bw/G; 1934 Australian film)
3.50 Napoleon III: The Fox Cub (G/USSR)
4.55 Movie “My Dad is Tarzan” (G/Sweden)
6.15 The Queen’s Christmas Message
6.30 World News (no names listed)
7.00 The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (bw; G/Ireland)
7.30 Confidencen (G/Sweden)
8.15 Dance Delights (G/France)
8.30 Movie “As Thick as Thieves” (PGR/France)
10.15 Movie “Carmen” (PGR/Spain)
11.55 Movie “Ordinary Miracle” (G/USSR)
2.10 close
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Re the Christmas schedules on the commercial channels - were the programs still locally scheduled in 1989? It would be interesting to see the variations in programs between the five metro markets. I would have assumed that some interstate stations would have opted to carry a common schedule and take a feed from Melbourne or Sydney due to skeleton staffing?
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I don’t remember Simone Semmens presented Seven News in 1989. Last month she was jailed for 34 months for tax fraud.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/former-seven-network-presenter-jailed-over-tax-fraud/news-story/242bd87a0aa4e12e541db72ccd778b77
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Today’s TV: 26.12.1987, Adelaide.
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Today’s TV: 27.12.1987, Adelaide
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TV Guide Flashback Sydney, Southern NSW and Newcastle 28 December 1989, the day of the Newcastle Earthquake thirty years ago today. NBN TV went off the air when the earthquake hit and the schedule was significantly disrupted. Channel 7 did air an hour long bulletin that night but obviously it isn’t mentioned here as it was a late change.
ABC TV
7:00 For Young Viewers
8:20 Sesame Street
9:20 PGR
9:30 Play School
10:00 For Young Viewers
12:00 Attack on the Liberty
1:00 Quantum Summer
1:30 For Young Viewers
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Play School
4:30 Mr Squiggle
5:00 Inspector Gadget
5:30 The Campbells
6:00 Countdown Summer
6:30 East Enders
7:00 ABC News
7:30 7:30 Report Summer Edition
8:00 Blackout: The Aboriginal Show
8:30 The Bill
9:22 Back to the 80’s
9:30 Discovery
10:30 Monocled Mutineer
12:01 Close
ATN7 (Prime Television)
6:00 Fame
(6:00 Travel Tips)
7:00 Cartoon Connection
9:00 The Flying Nun
(9:00 Silverhawkes)
9:30 Fat Cat and Friends
10:00 Wombat
10:30 Now You See It
11:00 Our House
(11:00 Beyond 2000)
12:00 Hollywood’s Private Home Movies: Number 2
1:00 Tennis: Hopman Cup
6:00 Seven Nightly News
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Hinch
7:30 Never The Twain
8:00 Dear John
8:30 Tennis: Hopman Cup
12:00 News Overnight
2:00 Movie: Go Naked in the World
3:50 Night Heat
4:45 Superior Court
5:10 On Trial
5:40 Science International
TCN9 (WIN Television)
6:00 Animals of Africa
6:30 Secrets and Mysteries
7:00 National Nine News
7:30 The Wackiest Ship in the Army
8:30 Skippy
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
10:00 Animals, Animals, Animals
10:30 McHale’s Navy
11:00 General Hospital
(11:00 Maude)
(11:30 Happy Days)
12:00 Police Story
1:00 Sanford and Son
1:30 Days of our Lives
2:30 The Young and the Restless
3:30 Programs for Children
(5:30 Benson)
6:00 National Nine News
(6:00 WIN Nightly News)
6:30 Countdown to Auckland
(6:30 National Nine News)
7:00 Growing Pains
(7:00 Countdown to Auckland)
7:30 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
(7:30 The Dolphins)
8:30 Tattingers
9:28 Lotto
9:30 Cannon
10:30 National Nine News
10:35 Mini Series: North and South 2
12:35 Ohara
1:35 Movie: Spanish Fly
3:10 Movie: Marion Rose White
5:00 Captain Power
5:30 The Young Doctors
TEN10 (Capital Television)
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Teddy Ruxpin
7:00 The New Gidget
(7:00 The Six Million Dollar Man)
8:00 Throb
(8:00 Maya The Bee)
8:30 Puttin’ on the Hits
9:00 War Between the Classes
(9:00 Real People)
10:00 Mulligrubs
10:30 Mama’s Family
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 The Bold and the Beautiful
1:30 Donahue
2:30 The Rockford Files
3:30 Neighbours Again
4:00 Children’s Programming
5:30 The Best of Perfect Match
6:00 Eyewitness News
(6:00 Ten News)
7:00 The Henderson Kids
7:30 Return to Eden
8:30 Legwork
9:30 Heart of the City
10:30 thirtysomething
11:30 Bizarre
12:00 Movie: Fraulien Doktor
2:00 Movie: Payday
4:00 Emergency
5:00 Dallas
SBS
12:35 Dance Lines
1:55 Movie: Going Places
3:15 Movie: The Little Gang
4:45 Christmas Village
4:50 Movie: Top Hat and Spud Nose
6:30 World News
7:00 The Monk and the Honeybee
7:30 Rambetika
8:20 Paintbox
8:30 Mini Series: Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man
9:30 Mini Series: Roanoak
10:25 Don Giovanni
1:05 Close
NBN Television
7:00 Cartoons
8:00 Lost in Space
9:00 Leyland Brothers World
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 Aerobics Oz Style
10:55 Kojak
12:00 Columbo
1:30 Afternoon Programs
3:30 Valerie’s Family
4:00 Wombat
4:30 Double Dare
5:00 The Honeymooners
5:30 Countdown to Auckland
6:00 NBN News
7:00 Perfect Strangers
7:30 Scarecrow and Mrs King
8:30 Mini Series: Echoes in the Darkness
11:20 Motor Racing
11:30 Wrestling
12:20 Close
Source: SMH, 28/12/1989
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Do you know how long NBN went off the air for?
A few hours at least. I wasn’t watching all day but being in Muswellbrook at the time and getting it on Channel 10 I thought it was odd that the test pattern with tone was on mid morning.
After that whenever I did spot it it was a news update where the studio was virtually in darkness. Figured they were trying to conserve power
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I remember them coming back on around 2.30. We were holidaying on the central coast, living at Harrington on the mid north coast.
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Coca-Cola Power Cuts, I remember that show. From memory it started off as a Saturday afternoon hour long show, then moved to Sunday afternoons and then finally a daily 30 minute show. It was a music video show that used a lot of animated graphics to make it look cool.
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