ABC
6.00 Rage (G)
7.30 Brum (G)
7.40 Albie (G)
7.55 Pingu (G)
8.00 Madeline (G)
8.25 Buzz & Poppy (G)
8.35 Angela Anaconda (G)
9.00 Insiders
9.30 Thomson of Arnhem Land (G)
10.30 Selling Australia “The Red Heart” (finale/G)
11.00 Songs of Praise (G; pt 2 of 2001 season)
11.30 Freedom or Madness “Australian Hermits” (G)
noon Landline
1.00 Gardening Australia
1.30 Message Stick “Djarragun College” (G)
2.00 Saturday Afternoon “Cats” (G)
4.15 Words with James Griffin (guest Fay Weldon)
4.30 Dreamlives (guests Trent Parke and Narelle Autio)
5.00 Parkinson (guests Ralph Fiennes, Mel Smith, and Mick Hucknall)
6.00 Pilot Guides “Iceland” (G)
6.30 Moments in Time (G)
7.00 News
7.30 Famous Five “Jimmy Stewart: His Wonderful Life” (G)
8.25 News
8.30 The Way We Live Now (G)
9.20 The Great Fire (G)
10.35 Compass “Sins of the Flesh: The Flesh and the Devil” (pt 2)
11.30 Shanghai Vice “Betrayal” (pt 2; PG)
12.20 Movie “Curtain Up” (bw/G)
1.40 Movie “East Meets West” (bw/G)
2.55 Movie “Song for Tomorrow” (bw/G)
4.00 Orphanage Girl (G)
4.30 Movie “Manic 7” (PG)
Seven
6.00 Commonwealth Games (from Manchester)
7.00 Flipper: The New Adventures (G)
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
8.30 Commonwealth Games
6.00 News
6.30 Commonwealth Games
Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia (G)
6.30 World View (G)
7.00 Challenger [C]
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Sunday Footy Show
noon AFL Sunday
1.00 AFL doubleheader: Geelong-Adelaide, followed by Western Bulldogs-Kangaroos at 4
6.00 News
6.30 Changing Rooms (G)
7.00 Location, Location (G)
7.29 Keno (G)
7.30 60 Minutes (G)
8.30 Movie “You’ve Got Mail” (PG)
10.55 Newsbreak
11.00 German F1 Grand Prix
1.15 NRL: Knights-Bulldogs
3.05 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)
4.05 Nightman (M)
5.00 Family & Friends (G)
5.30 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (G)
Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home (G)
6.30 Hillsong Television (G)
7.00 New Adventures of Ocean Girl [C]
7.30 Thunderstone [C]
8.00 Totally Wild [C]
8.30 Video Hits (G)
10.30 Pepsi Live (G)
11.00 Chill Factor (G)
11.30 Meet the Press (G)
noon Boarding Pass
12.30 Supercross Masters
1.00 RPM
2.00 V8 Supercars
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 Premiere (G)
6.30 Simpsons (G)
7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (G)
7.30 Celebrity Big Brother (PG)
8.30 Movie “Cruel Intentions” (Mlsd)
10.30 News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 World Superbike Championship
1.30 Cops (M, from Atlanta)
2.00 Home Shopping (G)
4.00 Life in the Word (G)
4.30 Kenneth Copeland (G)
5.00 Life Today with James Robison (G)
5.30 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn (G)
SBS
6.00 L-Ahbarijet
6.30 Pagunahing Balita
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Vlanyk Ukrainy
8.00 WeatherWatch & Music
8.55 Kalejdoskop
9.30 Esta Semana
10.00 Telegiornale
10.30 The Price of Eggs (UK; G)
11.30 Amanda’s Story (Canada, G)
12.30 Soccer: Leeds United v Colo Colo
2.30 Animals in Uniform “The Drug Busters” (UK; G)
3.00 World Football (UK)
3.30 Sportsweek
5.30 Tour de France highlights
6.00 The Business Show
6.30 World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Empires “Napoleon: The End” (UK, PG)
8.30 Les Miserables (pt 2-France; G)
10.10 Tour de France
1.30 close
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
C31
10.30 G’Day Maltaussies
11.00 Sputnik
noon Arab TV
1.00 Egyptian Program
1.30 Italian Television’s Insegna Media
2.00 Slovenian Magazine
3.00 Somali TV
3.30 Hungarian Television
4.00 Tamil TV
4.30 Tagata Polinesia
5.00 EntreTodos
5.30 Buone Notizie
6.00 C News
6.05 Good Evening Melbourne
6.30 Zontas 100%
7.00 Asian Community Television
8.00 C News
8.05 Greek Current Affairs
8.30 TV Hellas Movie
10.00 Croatian Program
10.30 Blaze Boyle
11.00 Word of Life
11.30 Fishcam
Stations were allowed to show test patterns in color. And sporting events. Though there were time limits on how much could be shown. Bit surprised to see Mayberry RFD on TEN-10 and Room 222 on ATV-0 listed as being in color. Didn’t think the rule applied to non-sports programming.
That was only in the first few weeks of colour tests. The allowance later extended to selected episodes of news and general programming and an increase of hours allowed.
e.g. Countdown was allowed to air in colour from its first episode in November 1974
There was also quite a fair bit of programming in colour on Christmas Day
ABC: Morning
6.00 Rolf Harris’ Animal Hospital
6.30 Batfink
6.35 Astro Boy
6.55 Girl Stuff, Boy Stuff
7.10 The Wild Thornberrys
7.35 Creature Features
8.00 Postman Pat
8.15 Peppa Pig
8.20 Little Robots
8.30 Play With Me Sesame
9.00 Boohbah
9.20 Connie The Cow
9.25 Bananas In Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Shape, Shape, Shape
10.15 Our Animals
10.20 Scientific Eye
10.40 Stuff
10.45 Behind The News Specials
11.00 The Australian Experience
11.25 Australians
11.30 Designers
11.45 Design Challenge Afternoon
12.00 Midday News And Business
12.30 Friends For Dinner
1.00 Classic Parkinson
2.00 Birds Of A Feather
2.30 My Family
3.00 Elmo’s World
3.15 Brum
3.25 Thomas And Friends
3.30 Play School
4.00 Wide Eye
4.10 Jakers! The Adventures Of Piggley Winks
4.35 Cyberchase
5.00 Silversun
5.25 Eugenie Sandler PI
5.50 Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids Evening
6.00 Message Stick
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Stateline
8.00 Strictly Dancing
8.30 The Brief
9.45 The Glass House
10.15 Lateline
10.45 Small Potatoes
11.10 Rage
Seven: Morning
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Playhouse Disney
9.30 Ground Force
10.00 Room For Improvement
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Power Of Attorney
11.30 Married To The Kellys Afternoon
12.00 Movie: The French Connection (1971)
2.30 Reba
3.00 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Seven’s 4:30 News
5.00 Wheel Of Fortune
5.30 Deal Or No Deal Evening
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home And Away
7.30 Auction Squad
8.30 Movie: The Sound Of Music (1965)
12.00 Celine In Las Vegas. Opening Night Live!
1.00 Ricki Lake
2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia
3.30 Danoz Direct
4.00 NBC Today
Nine: Morning
6.00 Today
9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Fresh Afternoon
12.00 Dr Phil
1.00 Days Of Our Lives
2.00 The Young And The Restless
3.00 Entertainment Tonight
3.30 Hi-5
4.00 Foreign Exchange
4.30 National Nine News: Afternoon Edition
5.00 The Price Is Right Evening
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Frasier
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie: US Marshals (1998)
11.10 Nightline
11.40 The Making Of A Man’s Gotta Do
12.10 Late Show With David Letterman
1.10 Movie: When The Dark Man Calls (1995)
3.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
3.30 The Bernie Mac Show
4.00 Entertainment Tonight
4.30 Good Morning America
Ten: Morning
6.00 Totally Wild
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 In The Box
7.30 Cheez TV
9.00 GMA With Bert Newton
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten’s 11.30 News Afternoon
2.00 White Collar Blue
1.00 The Secret Life Of Us
2.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show
3.00 Mad About You
3.30 Judge Judy
4.00 Wicked Science
4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful
5.00 Ten News: First at Five Evening
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Oprah And The Stars Of Bridgit Jones’s Diary
8.30 Movie: Spy Game (2001)
11.05 Ten’s Late News
11.35 Sports Tonight
12.05 Blokesworld
12.35 Video Hits Uncut
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Queens Supreme
5.00 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn
5.30 Christian City TV
SBS: Morning
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.50 Filipino News
7.25 Italian News
8.00 Das Journal
8.30 Spanish News
9.20 Le Journal
9.55 Russian News
10.30 Greek News
11.30 Arabic News Afternoon
12.05 Indonesian News
12.30 Business Report
1.00 Insight
2.00 She Dreamed Tomorrow
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Wine Lovers’ Guide To Australia
4.00 World Sport
4.30 The Journal
5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer Evening
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 A Fork In The Road
8.00 Elizabeth Chong’s Tiny Delights
8.30 The War Is Over
9.30 World News Tonight
10.00 Love For Sale
10.30 Movie: The Volcano (1998)
12.15 Movie: Rescue Me (2001)
2.00 Temporary Close
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.25 Japanese News
Guessing someone was having a laugh when they inserted the description “Longest running news service in Australian television history” for the news on ATV-0 at 5:15 pm.
Sydney - Monday 28 December 1964. It was the day The Samurai premiered on TCN-9 at 3:30pm. It was reported to be the first Japanese series on Australian television. It was notorious for the comical English language dubbing.
I was very little at the time, but I can never remember the weird AFL scheduling they used to do back then. And 10 had no news service except at 12am! So odd!
There was also VFA Football on ABC TV in Victoria live as the Competition was about to become Defunct and taken over by the Victorian State Football League who merged the Association and Former VFL/AFL Resevres Competition in the new VFL in 2000.
Here’s a clip of the ABC team of Peter Gee, Phil Cleary and Sam Kekovich discussing the demise of the VFA. Courtesy of Gezza1967 who has a trove of sports nostalgia on YouTube
What did you find weird about it? I used to love getting home from a match and seeing if my team had made the replay. That day, Drew Morphett called the match at Waverley before making the trip back to Dorcas St.
