Today’s TV: 27.6.1995, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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A real mid-nineties after-school lineup there on Seven.
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I remember that lineup very well as a kid.
Look at all the children’s content throughout the mornings and afternoons.
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ABC with kids programming in the mornings and afternoons. Jennifer Keyte’s name spelt incorrectly.
Today’s TV: 30.6.1966, Adelaide
Source: Nightlife / TV Guide
Possibly the relationship between SAS10 and the eastern states 0-10 channels is still a bit rocky, more than a year after they had a major falling out, with ATV0 shows The Magic Circle Club and Jimmy being run on NWS9.
On other nights, the comedy show 66 And All That and talent quest Showcase are other 0-10 programs shown in Adelaide on NWS9.
But SAS10 did carry Kommotion, Go, The Flintstones and Bewitched which were 0-10 shows elsewhere.
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Sydney, Friday 15 September 2000. The night of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. And the first night, I think, of Nine burning off the locally made Farscape. It was shot in a warehouse not far from the stadium, at the end of Hill Rd near the ferry wharf, in the suburb now know as Wentworth Point.
SMH
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Victoria, Thursday 1 July 1965
from The Age
Melbourne
ATV0
3.00 Documentary
3.30 Romper Room
4.30 Fury
5.00 Magic Circle Club
5.30 News
5.35 Buccaneers
6.00 Flintstones
6.25 Sergeant Bilko
6.55 News
7.00 Petticoat Junction
7.25 News
7.30 The Fugitive (A)
8.25 News
8.30 Thursday Night Movie “Sweet Smell of Success” (A)
10.15 VFL Teams
10.20 Twilight Zone
10.50 News
10.55 Stars in Action
ABV2
9.50-10.10 Schools
10.40-11.50 Schools
12.55 People
1.25-3.05 Schools
4.45 Kindergarten Playtime
5.00 Partyland
6.00 St. Lawrence North
6.30 Old Curiosity Shop
6.55 To Market, To Market
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.30 Z Cars (A)
8.20 Background
8.30 Ballet
8.55 Export Action
9.00 Town & Country
9.30 University of the Air
10.00 News
10.10 Play “Ring Out Wild Bells”
HSV7
11.19 Here’s Hal
11.22 First Edition News
11.30 Lunch Time Theatre “Merry Wives of Reno” (A)
12.30 Armchair Theatre “The Man from Cairo” (A)
2.00 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Father Knows Best
3.00 Time for Terry
4.00 Video Village
4.30 Happy Show
5.00 Early Movies “The Master of Ballantrae”
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Munsters
7.30 The Rogues
8.30 Thursday Night Movie “Humoresque” (A)
10.15 Guy du Maupassant
11.15 News/League Teams
GTV9
11.27 News Round Up
11.30 Danny Thomas
noon Burns & Allen
12.30 Channel 9 Theatre “Elopement” (A)
2.00 It Could Be You
2.30 Take the Hint
3.00 Concentration
3.30 Riverboat
4.30 Bugs Bunny
5.00 Theatre “Seminole Uprising”
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Danny Thomas
7.30 Double Your Dollars
8.00 Di Trask
8.30 Peyton Place (A)
9.00 Coronation Street (A)
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight (guest Lucky Starr)
10.45 News
11.00 TBA
11.40 Epilogue
Regionals
BTV6 Ballarat
5.00 BTV Juniors
6.00 Rin Tin Tin
6.30 News
7.00 My Three Sons
7.30 Mr. Novak
8.30 Defenders (A)
9.30 Peyton Place (A)
10.00 Mystery Theatre “The Man Who Lived Twice” (A)
11.20 News/Epilogue
GMV6 Shepparton
4.45 Jungle Menace
5.00 GMV Juniors
5.40 Rin Tin Tin
6.00 Patty Duke
6.30 News
7.00 Kentucky Jones
7.30 Double Your Dollars
8.00 Mr. Novak
9.00 Peyton Place (A)
9.30 Defenders (A)
10.20 Football Preview
10.35 News
BCV8 Bendigo
5.00 Cobbers’ Carousel
5.30 Cobbers’ Teleclub
5.35 Samurai
6.00 Adventure Theatre
6.25 Broadside
6.50 News
7.00 Andy Williams
8.00 Rawhide
9.00 Peyton Place (A)
9.30 Defenders (A)
10.25 Coronation Street (A)
10.50 News
GLV10 Traralgon
5.15 Gippsland Teleclub
5.45 Hopalong Cassidy
6.10 Passing Parade
6.25 Gippsland News
6.30 News (GTV9)
7.00 Bill Dana
7.30 The Rogues
8.30 Peyton Place (A)
9.00 Coronation Street (A)
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News (GTV9)/Epilogue
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Seven would have undoubtedly smashed its competition that evening, and for the two weeks that followed.
Thus, imagine what the ratings would be for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and whichever FTA broadcaster televises it.
Is it possible that his involvement in “Follow The Flame” may have been one of the last things John Collis did for Seven? The info I can find suggests John was a Sydney news reporter for Seven in the Late 1990s after leaving Nine (Darren Curtis also defected around the same time), but can’t find any references to him having any on-air profile after this program synopsis.
Of course I was too young to be following the ins and outs of Sydney’s media scene in 2000, so it’s only been in more recent times that I’ve become aware of his contributions and have wondered if the quirkier side of Collis’ reporting style may have been one of Mike Dalton’s inspirations.
Brian Henderson’s 69th birthday (and the final one which would’ve been an on-air day for Hendo, unless he was on holidays then), as well! 
Don’t know about the other channels but a notable diversion from the regular Seven News Sydney presenting lineup on that momentous night for the city was Nick McArdle presenting Sport instead of Kylie Gillies.
Going by the “Friday Flashback” article TV Tonight did recently, Farscape was filmed in a few places which were in/near Olympic competition sites:
First episode of the series aired on Saturday May 20, 2000 and as per the TV Tonight article, Nine ran Farscape for four weeks before coverage of Wimbledon took it out of the schedule until September 15.
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From what I can gather he also returned to Brisbane and was a reporter for Seven News there before he returned to Nine around 2010/11.
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A year ago the channel was trumpeting its 45-minute news bulletin (compared to ABC, Seven and Nine’s 30-minute bulletins at the time)
Source: Australian Television Archive
By 1965 it was down to doing just 5-minute updates.
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10’s best ever Wednesday night line up circa 1995:
6.00 The Simpsons (Rpt)
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld (Rpt)
7.30 The Simpsons (NEW)
8.00 The Nanny (NEW)
8.30 The X Files (NEW)
9.30 The Panel
10.45 Late News with Sandra Sully
11.15 Sports Tonight
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Its funny, but I remember these line ups well.
They very contestant back in the day. That schedule would pretty much stay the same throughout the year.
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Today’s TV: 5.7.1965, Sydney and Wollongong
Source: TV Week
interesting to note that TEN10, after only 3 months on air, had already canned one of its key programming fixtures… having a mid-evening news and current affairs program, Telescope, scheduled to avoid competition from the other two commercial channels.
By this stage Telescope had already been bumped to 6.30pm which put it up against the news on both Seven and Nine.
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That schedule format is so hard to read and comprehend
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I always find it hard to follow, and I struggle to see how Americans followed the same format in their listings, particularly when TV Guide editions covered several different markets with regional variations and different channel numbers, etc. But TV Guide there did it for decades.
Lucky for us, I guess, is that TV Times phased it out by the mid-1960s, and TV Week when it switched to A4-size in 1968.
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That format was still being used in some Sydney newspaper TV guide lift outs in the early 1980s. It helped that most shows On all channels started on the hour or half hour back then.
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TV Scene, which was a newspaper format, perservered with it until it finished up in 1987.
The Sun and The Herald newspapers both did it up until the mid 1980s.
The Age abandoned it sometime around 1980 but the Green Guide never ran with it AFAIK.
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Melbourne, Friday 11 July 2003
from TV Week
ABC
6.00 New Dimensions with George Negus (G)
6.30 Business Breakfast
7.00 Billy the Cat (G)
7.25 Aliens Among Us (G)
7.30 Amazing Adrenalini Brothers (G)
7.55 The Fairytaler (G)
8.00 Bob the Builder (G)
8.10 I Spy (G)
8.25 Maisy (G)
8.30 Sesame Street (G)
9.00 Bear in the Big Blue House (G)
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas (G)
9.30 Play School (G)
10.00 Snailsbury Tales (G)
10.10 Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings (G)
10.20 Eckhart (G)
10.40 Angela Anaconda (G)
11.00 CatDog (G)
11.35 Custer’s Last Stand Up (G)
noon The World at Noon
12.30 Take the High Road (G)
1.00 Night & Day (G)
1.50 Marion & Geoff (PG)
2.00 Birds of a Feather (PG)
2.30 Kiss Me Kate (PG)
3.00 Hoobs (G)
3.25 Bananas in Pyjamas (G)
3.30 Play School (G)
4.00 Mamemo (G)
4.05 George Shrinks (G)
4.30/4.40 Sitting Ducks (G)
4.55 Aliens Among Us (G)
5.00 Round the Twist (G)
5.30 Ocean Girl (G)
6.00 Vets in Practice (G)
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Stateline
8.00 Caleb (PG)
8.30 Jonathan Creek (M/return)
9.30 Spooks
10.25 The Glass House (M)
10.55 Lateline
11.25 Topp Twins (G)
11.50 Rage (M)
Seven
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Playhouse Disney [P]
9.30 Wipeout [C]
10.00 Flipper & Lopoka [C]
10.30 Seven News
11.00 Ricki Lake (PG)
noon Movie “Curse of the Pink Panther” (PG)
2.30 Two Guys and a Girl
3.00 Passions (PG)
4.00 The Big Arvo [C]
4.30 Seven News at 4.30
5.00 M * A * S * H (G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune (G)
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away (G)
7.30 Auction Squad (G)
8.30 Heartbeat (PG)
9.30 Movie “The Next Best Thing” (M)
mid. Movie “Shelter” (M)
2.00 DAG (PG)
2.30 Guthy-Renker (G)
3.30 Danoz Direct (G)
4.00 NBC Today
Nine
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey [P]
9.30 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG)
11.00 National Nine News
11.30 Fresh (G)
noon Days of Our Lives (PG)
1.00 Young & the Restless (PG)
2.00 Education of Max Bickford (PG)
3.00 Dr. Phil (PG)
4.00 Y? [C]
4.30 Entertainment Tonight (G)
5.00 Burgo’s Catch Phrase (G)
5.30 Price is Right (G)
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Frasier (G)
7.29 Keno (G)
7.30 Burke’s Backyard (G)
8.30 AFL: Adelaide-Essendon (from AAMI Stadium, Adelaide)
11.45 Nightline Nightline
12.15 NRL: Brisbane Broncos-Bulldogs (from Suncorp Stadium)
2.30 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)
3.30 Mad TV (M)
4.30 Just the Ten of Us (G)
5.00 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (G)
5.30 Entertainment Tonight (G)
Ten
6.00 Totally Wild [C]
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
7.00 Cheez TV (G)
8.30 In the Box [P}
9.00 Good Morning Australia (PG)
11.30 Ten News
noon Ripley’s Believe It or Not (PG)
1.00 Judge Judy (G)
1.30 Doc (PG)
2.30 Oprah Winfrey (PG)
3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G)
4.00 Totally Wild [C]
4.30 Bold & the Beautiful (G)
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Simpsons (G)
6.30 Neighbours (G)
7.00 Big Brother (G)
7.30 Big Brother-The Insider (PG)
8.00 Simpsons (PG)
8.30 Movie “The Mummy” (M)
10.55 Ten News
11.25 Sports Tonight
11.55 Big Brother-Up Late (M)
1.55 Video Hits (G)
2.00 Home Shopping (G)
4.00 Tales of the South Seas (M)
5.00 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn (G)
5.30 Christian City TV (G)
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
noon Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “Not One Less” (China/G)
2.15 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Australian Biography: Peter Sculthorpe (G)
4.00 Insight
5.00 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Tour de France Highlights
6.30 World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 The Business Show
8.00 A Fork in Africa (return)
8.30 About Us
9.30 World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Home Sweet Home” (Sweden)
11.40 Eat Carpet
12.50 Tour de France Highlights
1.20-2.20 All Stars (Netherlands/M)
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
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it’s still Channel 2, literally #myfriend (digital TV EPG)
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