Today’s TV: 1.1.1980, Melbourne
Source: TV Times
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I remember a big promo as a kid at the end of 1979 advertising QTQ9 going 24 hours a day… had a real retro looking font and I think the tagline was “9’s going non stop for the 80s”. I wonder what the overnight schedule was?
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It’s first overnight schedule is here
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Wow. Thank you.
Today Tonight with Glenn Taylor on 9. Had forgotten that one.
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Here is a video of Today Tonight with Andrew Carroll in June 1980. I think Glenn Taylor left QTQ9 for BTQ7 to start Sate Affair in 1980. John Barton then toook over Today Tonight. Was Andrew Carroll filling in that night?
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Interesting 9 had a TT prior to the 7 one that we all know.
I would guess this would of been the replacement for the original ACA will Mike Willesee?
How long did this iteration of TT last? Was it broadcast to all states?
Would 7 still hold the rights of the brand TT despite it be axed, should they revive the format in the future?
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The original version of Today Tonight ran on QTQ-9 from 1979 to 1985.
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I loved Andrew Carroll. I think he also did a show called Carroll at 7??
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I used to love those rotating Ts lol. I think I had stickers with that logo on.
It was very popular and was broadcast to all regionals across Qld.
Pretty sure Glenn Taylor jumped ship around the time that all the regionals all changed to 7News (and State Affair) for the first time.
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The regionals changed to BTQ7 in early 1983. This gave them an abosolute power house of a news service until of course Fairfax took over control in 1987 and the rest is history.
Today Tonight was formed as a result of the cancellation of This Day Tonight on the ABC. Most of the crew jumped ship to QTQ9. In early 1985 Willesee was broadcast on QTQ9 in the 9.30pm timeslot. By mid year, Today Tonight and Willesee swapped timeselots and TT then ended in late 85. It was produced by Tripod Television. 85 was a turbulent year for QTQ. In mid 85 Frank Warrick left to go back to BTQ and hence Bruce Paige was very quickly lured from the ABC car park at Toowoong to read at Nine which by mid 87 had paid off! Don Seccombe retired at the end of 85 as he has been pushed to weekends in 85. The one bizarre noved QTQ made in 85 was swap Sale of the Century with Blankety Blanks at 5.30. What an absolute disaster that was for them!!!
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This would have been in the dying days of the old Cartoon Connection show. Agro’s Cartoon Connection premiered in February 1990 from memory, and looking back, was far better than Alex Wileman and Michael Horrocks’ version.
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100% correct.
He says at the end of the program he’ll see us again on Monday. I’m sure Andrew Carroll was host for a period of time.
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IIRC she hosted Nine’s lotto telecasts in the 1990/2000’s?
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Yes, that’s correct. Controversially replaced (I’ve got a vague recollection of this being a story in The Daily Telegraph) by Francine Scali around the mid-2000s, who was later replaced by Jaynie Seal.
Probably the last time I saw Alex Wileman anywhere on TV was when she did that ad for incontinence pants about five or six years ago!
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Today’s TV: 3.1.1992, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
Interesting that TV Week has Ten Eyewitness News listed as one hour. The Age’s listing for the same day shows it as 30 minutes with MASH at 6.30. I seem to recall Ten cut it back to 30 minutes for the summer, and it resumed to a one-hour format when it re-launched at 5.00pm in a few weeks time.
Also, from the following Monday, 6 January, the big soap battle between Home And Away and Neighbours began with both shows returning for the new year up against each other at 7.00 for the first time (in eastern states, anyway). By March, Neighbours retreated from the battle and moved to 6.30.
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I have some vague memories during the letter segment of some claw hand handing letters to Alex. Does anyone else remember that or have any footage of this?
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Ah yes, I remember the claw, except I can’t remember if it had a name.
It was also the last time Channel 7 would cover the Hopman Cup for over 20 years with the ABC taking coverage from the next year.
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