According to this clip on YT, it’s just called ‘Claw’.
I was hoping it was going to be Clawy McClawface, but was disappointed.
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Today’s TV: 10.1.1982, Melbourne / Country VIC / South East SA
Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly TV World
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Sydney TV listings: Monday, January 13, 1997
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
6.00 Accounting
6.30 Australian Environmental Studies
7.00 Visual Arts
7.30 Psychology
8.00 Italianissimo
8.15 Alles Gute
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Educational programming
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 Landline
2.00 GP
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Mr. Squiggle
4.00 Play School
4.30 Raggy Dolls
4.40 Fireman Sam
4.50 Oakie Doke
5.00 Dreamstone
5.30 Santo Bugito
6.00 Northwood
6.30 Keeping Up Appearances
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Frontline
8.30 Four Corners
9.30 Cardiac Arrest
10.00 Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century
10.30 ABC News
10.35 Premier League highlights
11.30 Australia Television News
12.00 close (it’s strange to see the ABC closing down for a few hours; was it because of transmitter repairs?; I checked the Melbourne Age from the same day and also was listing a temporary close between 12am and 3am)
3.00 Perspective
3.30 Out of Empire
4.00 Earth Revealed
4.30 Study Skills
5.00 Marketing
5.30 Perspective
ATN7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Total Recall
9.30 Time Masters
10.00 Beverly Hillbillies
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Tennis: Australian Open (day 1)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away (return)
7.30 JAG
8.30 Tennis: Australian Open (evening session)
12.45 LAPD: Life on the Beat
1.15 Telemall Shopping
2.15 NBC Today
4.30 Mister Ed (b/w)
5.00 Telemall Shopping
TCN9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 Daybreak/Business Today
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Guess What
10.00 NFL: Carolina at Green Bay (tape-delayed)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Married… with Children
4.00 Wishbone
4.30 The Hogan Family
5.00 Growing Pains
5.30 The Price is Right
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Our House
7.30 Friends
8.00 Caroline in the City
8.28 Lotto
8.30 Water Rats
9.30 Twisted Tales
10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Courthouse
12.00 Wings
12.30 Entertainment Tonight
1.00 Joe Cocker: Organic
2.00 Movie “The Glass Menagerie”
4.30 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
5.00 48 Hours
TEN10
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 General Hospital
1.00 Highway to Heaven
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 Brady Bunch
6.30 Candid Camera
7.00 MAS*H
7.30 Best of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie “Escape from Alcatraz”
10.40 Ten News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 Movie “Thieves”
1.30 A Year to Remember
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
SBS
6.30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7.00 Telegiornale
7.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.55 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 Global Family
12.30 Movie “The Three Codonas” (Germany)
2.15 Weatherwatch & Music
2.30 TV Ed
3.00 PAGE: Professional & Graduate Education
4.30 Greek Fire (UK)
5.00 The Last Paradise
6.00 Den of Wolves (Mexico)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Soccer: Ericsson Cup
8.30 Hitler’s Henchmen: Heinrich Himmler (Germany)
9.30 Movie “The Third Bank of the River” (Brazil)
10.55 Fine Cut “Tanjuska & the Seven Devils” (Finland)
12.15 Red Dyed Hair (Greece)
1.00 close
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Does anyone remember if this was live or on one-hour delay? I suspect the latter.
Australian Open was shown on one hour delay at night.
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Was usually live, the Men’s match wasn’t scheduled to start until 8:40. If the women’s session went longer, they’d join that until it’s conclusion. The 7pm session was replayed after the live men’s match.
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Did Foxtel (or whatever existed before that, don’t mean to be rude) also cover the Open during that time too or was it just Seven?
no, Foxtel did not cover that year’s Australian Open. There have been times in the 2000s and 2010s when Fox Sports did cover the Australian Open with their own commentators or the world feed, but semi-finals and finals were delayed telecasts. They last covered the AO in 2015 if I remember correctly.
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Was this a repeat? Normally the game shows take holidays during the summer replaced with old repeats and/or tennis.
Towards the end of 2000, ABC (and probably commercial channels) did some late night shutdowns to allow installation of digital transmitters. But this one in 1997 was probably just general maintenance. That’s just my guess.
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Speaking of close downs, Ten Capital in 2001 for several months closed down every night between 2am and 4am. They threw a slide up on screen saying they would be back on air at 4am. I just assumed it had something to do with digital TV equipment installs.
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I assume that was during Home Shopping.
Today’s TV: 16.1.1984, Victoria
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what did the closedown sequence looks like, #myfriend ?
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Surprised to see Robin Roenfeldt and Joanna Moore presenting children’s television on NWS 9 as early as 1980 considering they were still doing it in the late 1980s when C’mon Kids was airing nationally.
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interesting too to see The Daryl & Ossie Show getting a run on SAS10 two years after it bombed in Melbourne. Though burning it off in a daytime timeslot in January was probably appropriate given that neither Daryl nor Ossie were household names in Adelaide at the time
I remember I used to watch re-runs of The Celebrity Game in the 1980s. I think Ten got a lot of repeats out of that one.
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