I see STW were still showing Prisoner, a year after it had finished in Melbourne and Sydney. I believe TVO were well behind with it too. I’ve heard it was cancelled in Perth before the end its run, not moving over to NEW. I’m not sure if TVO showed the full series either.
Sons and Daughters at 3pm on TVW is listed as a repeat. I believe they burned off the final episodes in an afternoon slot, so it’s possible repeats began as soon as the first run had been completed, or the “repeat” indicator is an error.
You have to remember that often there was only one copy of a tape, hence why after it was screened on one channel, the next day the tape would be flown/driven to a new city to screen the following night. I believe that stations in Brisbane & Perth had to wait quite a while as regional cities south of the border had the tape before Brisbane did.
ABC
8.00 Sesame Street
8.55 Magic Roundabout
9.00 Play School
9.30 For Schools: Behind the News (bw)
9.55 For Schools: Social Studies (bw)
11.00 For Schools: Scene (bw)
11.30 For Schools: Living Here & There (bw)
noon For Schools: ASEP (bw)
12.30 This Day Tonight
1.00 News
1.30 For Schools: For the Juniors (bw)
2.00 For Schools: Guten Tag Wie Geht’s (bw)
3.15 Flowerpot Men “Paint Pots”
3.30 Play School (bw)
4.00 Sesame Street
4.55 Adventure Island (bw)
5.25 Squiggle (bw)
5.35 Lassie “The Last Frontier”
6.00 My Favorite Martian
6.30 regional programming: Alpha/Clermont/Mackay/Emerald/Barcaldine/Longreach/Rockhampton: Report Cairns/Julia Creek/Richmond/Cloncurry/Mary Kathleen/Townsville/Hughenden/Mount Isa/Winton: Points North (replayed Mon 6.30pm) remainder of Qld: Challenging Sea “Octopus”
6.55 Regional News
7.00 News/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Games for Parents & Other Children
9.10 Mid-Evening News/Weather
9.15 A Family at War “The Facts of Life” (A)
10.05 All About Music
10.50 Radio with Pictures (premiere/from Sydney)
11.35 close
MVQ6 Mackay
1pm color test pattern
2.00 General Hospital (A/bw)
2.30 Catwalk “They Loved Me Tonight, Didn’t They?” (bw)
2.50 Shopping Spree
3.00 Days of Our Lives (A/bw)
3.30 Tom & Jerry “Triplet Trouble”
3.55 Stamps with a Story (bw)
4.00 Laramie “Night of the Quiet Man” (bw)
4.50 National Fitness Club
5.00 The Professor & the Enquiring Minds
5.30 Dusty’s Trail “From Here to Maternity”
6.00 National News
6.40 Young Talent Time
7.30 Medical Centre “Web of Darkness” (A/bw)
8.30 Kojak “Die Before They Wake” (AO)
9.30 Local News
9.40 Seven Seas “Caribbean”
10.30 Just a Minute
10.35 close
TNQ7 Townsville/FNQ10 Cairns
4pm This Week Has Seven Days (bw)
4.20 Mr. Safety
4.25 Eye Spy
4.30 Captain Scarlet (bw)
5.00 Osmond Brothers
5.30 Black Beauty “Sailor on Horse Back”
5.57 Weather Report
6.00 National News
6.25 Local News
6.35 A Current Affair
7.00 Hogan’s Heroes
7.30 Homicide “Brotherhood of Men”
8.30 Upstairs, Downstairs “I Dies for Love” (A)
9.30 Defenders “Hollow Triumph” (A/bw)
10.25 Italian Panorama (bw)
10.40 close
RTQ7 Rockhampton
5pm Tom & Jerry
5.30 The Professor & the Enquiring Minds
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Local News (bw)
6.35 Dusty’s Trail “There is Nothing Like a Dame”
7.00 Here We Go Again “The Tax Man Cometh”
7.30 Brian Keith “Classmates” (A)
8.00 TV Week Logie Awards (aired the previous night at 7.30 on TNQ/FNQ)
9.25 Number 96 (bw)
10.25 close
ITQ8 Mount Isa
5.30pm Mister Ed “Ed’s Bed”
6.00 News
6.10 Safety Ahead (Mount Isa Safety Council)
6.15 Lost in Space “Flaming Planet”
7.15 Chicago Teddy Bears “The Auction”
7.45 Barnaby Jones “Murder Go Round” (A)
8.45 Late News
8.50 Movie “One Minute to Zero” (A)
10.40 close
WBQ8 Wide Bay
3.25pm Billboard
3.30 Until Tomorrow
4.00 Teleclub (includes Circus and Birthdays)
4.30 King Leonardo “Hip Hip Hypnosis”
5.00 Bonanza
5.35 Hook, Line & Sinker
6.00 National News
6.30 Class of '74
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Matlock Police “A Couple of Days Away”
8.30 The Box
9.30 Dick Emery
10.00 High Chaparral
11.00 Epilogue
11.05 close
DDQ10 Toowoomba/SDQ4 Warwick
2.10pm Meditation
2.15 John Crook
2.45 Orson Welles “Captain Rogers” (A)
3.10 Ours is a Nice House “Judge for Yourself” (A/finale)
3.35 M.A.S.H. “Dear Dad…Three” (A)
4.00 Jayne Costello (premiere; includes Looking In and Top Cat)
4.50 Follyfoot “The Innocents”
5.15 Junior Flyers Club
5.25 Brady Bunch
5.50 Sports Show
6.00 National News
6.25 Local News
6.30 A Current Affair
6.56 Weather
7.00 Class of '75
7.30 Division 4 “The Vigil”
8.30 The Box
9.30 Studio 9
10.30 Meditation
10.35 close
That’s interesting. I find it hard to believe that in all cases there was only one copy of the transmission tape. This could easily go missing/become damaged. Surely it wasn’t too expensive to run off a couple of copies, especially for the cases when markets showed programs within days of each other. In some cases there may even have been a microwave link that allowed stations to remotely make copies.
Melbourne TV listings: Wednesday, March 10, 1999
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Anthropology
6.30 Aboriginal Studies
7.00 Hazards, Disasters & Survival
7.15 Alles Gute
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Blinky Bill
8.25 Miffy
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Rat-A-Tat-Tat
10.15 Le Club
10.30 Images of Nature
10.50 Australians
11.05 Behind the News
11.30 The World of Music
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 National Press Club Luncheon
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Pingu
3.30 Play School
4.00 Thomas the Tank Engine
4.05 Little Bear
4.30 Neverending Story
4.55 Oscar & Friends
5.00 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.25 Little Lulu
5.30 Catdog
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
6.50 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Antonio Carluccio’s Southern Italian Feast
8.30 The Lakes
9.15 The Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star
10.00 Tracey Takes on… “Age”
10.25 ABC News
10.30 Lateline
11.05 Movie “Orlando”
12.40 Parliament Question Time: Senate
1.40 Australia Television News
2.10 Investing in People
3.00 Time to Grow
3.30 Race to Save the Planet
4.30 Australian Environmental Studies
5.00 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.30 Marketing
HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Goof Troop
8.00 Adventures of Mickey & Donald
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Denise
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Taking Care of Business”
2.30 Ricki Lake
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 I Dream of Jeannie
5.00 Bewitched
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 JAG
8.30 Blue Heelers
9.30 The Practice
10.30 Homicide: Life on the Street
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Skiing: Blackcomb Aerial World Cup
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
4.45 Social Studies
5.10 Beyond 2000
GTV9
6.00 National Nine News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Hardcastle & McCormick
10.30 National Nine News
11.00 Ink
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 The Price is Right
3.30 Married… with Children
4.00 Spellbinder
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Full House
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Our House
8.00 Good Medicine
8.30 Movie “Under Siege 2”
10.30 Nightline
11.00 High Incident
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Movie “Shades of Love: Midnight Magic”
3.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
4.00 Turn 'Round Australia
4.30 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
5.00 20/20
ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight
7.00 Cheez TV: Spider-Man/Pokémon/Count Duckula
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Roseanne Show
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00/7.30 The Simpsons
8.00 E! News
8.30 The X-Files
9.30 The Panel
10.45 Ten News
11.15 Sports Tonight
11.45 Breakers
12.15 Beauty & the Beast
1.15 After Midnight
1.45 After Midnight Documentary
2.15 Telemall Shopping
3.10 Danoz Home Shopping
3.45 Video Hits
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “I Made a Splash” (Italy)
2.05 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 The Women of Islam (French documentary)
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Asia Sports Show
7.30 Movie Show
8.00 About Us “Servant of the Ancestors”
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “The Absolution” (India)
11.40 Dual Truth (Greece)
12.30 Mini-Series “The Man with the Mask” (Germany)
2.10 close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
6pm Turkish Music Box
6.30 Tamil TV
7.00 Arab TV
8.00 UK Today
8.30 Liquid Music
9.30 Vivace
10.00 Boob Tube
10.30 Speaker Box
11.00 Champagne Comedy
11.30 Fish Cam
Sydney TV listings: Monday, March 12, 2001
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABC
6.00 English Have a Go
6.30 Management in Action
7.00 Archibald
7.30 Thomas the Tank Engine
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Angelmouse
8.05 Noddy
8.15 Magic Mountain
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.15 More Than Words
10.30 Le Club
10.45 Africa’s Child
11.00 Pathways to Australian Science
11.15 Science Bank
11.30 Discovering Science
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 Landline
2.00 GP
3.00 Tweenies
3.20 Animal Shelf
3.30 Play School
4.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.05 Little Grey Rabbit
4.15 Bob the Builder
4.25 Little Monsters
4.30 Arthur
4.55 Lisa
5.00 Rugrats
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 The Baskervilles
6.00 Hero to Zero
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Micallef Pogram
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Littlemore
9.30 BackBerner
10.00 The Fat
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Wildside
11.45 Unfinished Business
12.15 Movie “Madness of the Heart”
1.55 Movie “The Root of All Evil”
3.55 Scientific Eye
4.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 New Horizons
Seven
6.00 Sunrise
7.30 All-Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Denise
10.00 All-Star Squares
10.30 Seven News
11.00 Ricki Lake
12.00 Movie “For the Love of Nancy”
2.00 Heartbeat
3.05 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Home & Away (early episodes)
5.00 Bewitched
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 The Weakest Link
8.30 Ally McBeal
9.30 The Practice
10.30 Felicity
11.30 Seven News
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Victor Paul Shopping
5.10 Holding the Baby
5.35 The Hughleys
Nine
6.00 National Nine News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Blue’s Clues
10.00 Weddings
10.30 Fresh
11.00 National Nine News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 Movie “It Could Happen to You”
4.00 Y?
4.30 The Cool Room
5.00 Brady Bunch
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Friends
8.00 Flat Chat (Lotto at 8.28)
8.30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: Couples Special
9.30 Sex & the City
10.10 Pleasure Island II (Greg Hassall (Sydney Morning Herald’s TV critic) suggested readers to avoid watching this show!)
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Liverpool 1
12.10 WCW Monday Nitro
1.10 Entertainment Tonight (repeat)
1.35 Walker, Texas Ranger
2.30 Spyforce
3.30 Victor Paul Shopping
4.30 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5.00 48 Hours
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Digimon
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Dragon Ball Z
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Oprah Winfrey
1.00 Horse Racing: Australian Cup Day (from Melbourne)
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Sandra Sully Presents “The Ultimate Guide: Dolphins”
8.30 Law & Order
9.30 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Motor Racing: CART World Series (round 1 from Mexico)
1.30 Payne
2.00 Suzanne Paul
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Itogi
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie “Balkanisator” (Greece)
2.05 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 ICAM: Indigenous Current Affairs Magazine
4.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
5.20 Hotline
5.30 Athletics: World Indoor Championships (day 3)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Match of the '90s (UK)
8.30/9.00 South Park
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market” (Japan)
11.15 Alchemy
12.15 Movie “A Private Affair” (Spain)
1.50 close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
This was one of very few shows which aired immediately after the all-conquering Friends and did not become a ratings hit. It was a 13-episode sitcom produced by Nine, starring Jean Kittson.
They showed this on international weekends when there was no Premier League matches (in previous years they showed extended highlights of a Monday Night game from the previous week), however they didn’t show the entire series, as the first 3 episodes covered the years before the Premier League existed. Basically it was a look back at the last decade of top flight English football.
Fundidora Park, Monterrey Mexico, permanent road course. Cristano da Matta won. At least 3 drivers from that race are still going to be attempting to qualify for this year’s Indy 500 (Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan and Scott Dixon who was on debut this race, with an outside chance for a 4th driver in Oriol Servia). This would be the first race of the last season of CART covered exclusively by ABC/ESPN in America (the coverage used the American calls for this season with Paul Page and Parker Johnstone in the booth), before the American Coverage reverted to a mix of Speed Channel and CBS timebuys in 2002-2003 (where we got the international feed for those years, Leigh Diffey called with Jeremy Shaw in 2002, with Stephen Cox the main voice in 2003, and he really sucked)
This would have been one of the last Monday Nitro’s ever produced as WWE purchased the assets. 2 weeks later it was all over (which may have been 3 weeks in Australia).
I think Peter Overton (likely due to his history at Sky Channel before moving to Seven Adelaide, then Nine Sydney) might’ve been involved with the presenting of horse racing coverage on Nine as well, but I’d have to check on that.
Main problem with AMV was that it was during a G rated only period meaning that it played the same music videos every couple days with minimal variation. Very poorly thought out.
Canberra/Southern NSW TV listings: Sunday, February 21, 1982
from Canberra Times
ABC TV
9.00am 1982 National Agricultural Outlook Conference: Beef and Sheep Meats
11.00 Divine Service (St George’s Anglican Cathedral, Perth)
12.00pm Countrywide
12.40 In Your Garden
1.00 The English Garden
1.30 Motorcycling: Yamaha 750 from Oran Park
4.00 Cricket: Sheffield Shield Victoria v NSW
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 ABC News and Weekend Magazine
7.40 A Horseman Riding By
8.30 Secret Army
9.20 Late News and Weather
9.30 World of Music
10.20 Yellow Cab (BBC doco on New York undercover policemen)
11.10 Close
CTC7 Canberra
5.30am Test Pattern
6.02 Kenneth Copeland
7.00 It Is Written
7.30 The World Tomorrow
7.58 Rex Humbard
8.27 Insight
8.53 CSIRO documentary
9.00 Sunday
10.57 Point of View
11.06 Capital 7 Sport with Tony Campbell
12.00pm Australian Masters Golf Championship (live from Melbourne)
6.00 Australian Capital News
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney
7.28 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: Demolition
10.17 The Explorers: Christopher Columbus
11.13 Bearcats
12.06am Movie: Jigsaw
1.44 Station Close
WIN4 Wollongong
6.30am Kenneth Copeland
7.30 Religious
8.00 Thunderbirds
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sportsworld
12.00 Australian Masters Golf Championships (live from Melbourne)
6.00pm News
6.30 Little House on the Prairie
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: Newman’s Law
10.20 Philips Soccer League
11.20 World Around Us
11.25 The Late Show: Burn!
1.25 To be advised
RVN2 Wagga Wagga
10.30am Jimmy Swaggart Hour
11.30 The World Tomorrow
12.00pm Turn Around Australia
12.30 The Lavington Sports Carnival (athletics, cycling and wood chop from Lavington near Albury)
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 Seven National News
6.25 Weather
6.30 The Wonderful World of Disney
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: The Family Nobody Wanted
9.55 The Lavington Sports Carnival
11.00 Living Today
11.30 Close
