Morning news program hosted by John Barton and Kay McGrath. Produced at 7 in Sydney. It didn’t last long and McGrath went back to Brisbane after that to join Seven News there.
This was before Frasier became popular which was only the last few years of its run.
Today’s TV listing is 9 April 1962, 55 years ago, from Perth.
Not much stands out on this particular day. Schools programming scattered through the day on ABW2, with TVW7 not starting transmission until 4.45pm. TVW did commence weekday transmission earlier in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with local women’s shows like Today and Televisit plus the national show It Could Be You and the ATN7 serial production The Story Of Peter Gray
Typically, not a lot of Australian content to be found in prime time outside of news. Cafe Continental I think was a Melbourne or Sydney based production for ABC, and University Of The Air was on at 9.30pm.
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Some things have changed. Highway Patrol on 7 has moved from a 9:30 timeslot to 7:30.
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Found an old TV Week lying around so here’s some listings:
Melbourne – Thursday July 14, 2005
ABC
6:00 The Saddle Club
6:25 Potatoes and Dragons
6:35 Lizzie McGuire
7:00 Cyberchase
7:20 Rotten Ralph
7:35 Fantastic Flying Journey
8:00 The Koala Brothers
8:10 Pablo the Little Red Fox
8:15 Postman Pat
8:30 Play with Me Sesame
8:55 Poko
9:20 Funky Valley
9:25 Bananas in Pyjamas
10:00 Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
10:25 Backyard Science
10:40 Creature Features
11:05 Round the Twist
11:30 Kids in the Garden
11:35 Mentors
12:00 Midday Report
12:30 Something in the Air
1:00 Born and Bred
2:00 The Bill
3:00 Bananas in Pyjamas
3:05 Bambaloo
3:30 Play School
3:55 ToddWorld
4:05 Jakers!
4:30 Aliens Among Us
4:35 Tupu
5:00 The Worst Witch
5:25 Pigeon Boy
5:55 Flatmania
6:00 Doctor Who: State of Decay
6:30 Collectors
7:00 News
7:30 The 7:30 Report
8:00 Catalyst
8:30 DNA: Playing God
9:30 MDA: Second Chance – Part 3
10:25 Lateline
11:00 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Bridging the Gap
12:00 The Academy: Everyone’s Full Bottle Now
12:30 Movie: The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
2:10 Movie: The Dark Man (1951)
3:30 Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson: Car Trouble/Restaurant
4:00 New Eden
4:30 Movie: Penny Princess (1952)
SEVEN
6:00 Sunrise (HD)
9:00 Playhouse Disney
9:30 Passions
10:30 News (HD)
11:00 Temptation Island Reunion/Wedding Special
12:00 Movie: Crimes of Passion: Voice from the Grave (1996)
2:00 Blue Heelers: Broken Promises – Part 2
3:00 Home Improvement: My Son, the Driver
3:30 Who Dares Wins
4:00 Go Go Stop
4:30 News
5:00 MAS*H: Inga
5:30 Deal or No Deal
6:00 News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away (HD)
7:30 Las Vegas: The Lie is Cast (HD)
8:30 Lost: Do No Harm (HD)
9:30 The Amazing Race
10:30 Stargate Atlantis: Before I Sleep (HD)
11:30 Tour of Duty: Soldiers
12:30 Fight School
1:30 I’m Alan Partridge
2:00 Guthy-Renker
3:00 Brand Developers
3:30 USA High: Mother’s Day
4:00 NBC Today
NINE
6:00 National Nine Early Morning News
7:00 Today (HD)
9:00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (HD)
11:00 News
11:30 Fresh Cooking with the Australian Women’s Weekly (HD)
12:00 Dr Phil: Wedding Disasters
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Young and the Restless (HD)
3:00 Entertainment Tonight
3:30 Hi-5: World
4:00 [Hot] Source
4:30 National Nine News Afternoon Edition
5:00 Frasier: Halloween
5:30 The Price is Right
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 A Current Affair (HD)
7:00 Temptation
7:30 Getaway
8:30 This Is Your Life
9:35 The Footy Show
11:00 Nightline
11:30 Golf: British Open Golf 2005 (Live)
4:30 Late Show with David Letterman
5:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TEN
6:00 Totally Wild (HD)
6:30 Aerobics Oz Style
7:00 Cheez TV
8:30 In the Box
9:00 GMA with Bert Newton (HD)
11:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11:30 News
12:00 The Nanny
12:30 Seinfeld
1:00 Ready Steady Cook
2:00 The Oprah Winfrey Show: I Want My Child To Be A Star
3:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
3:30 Judge Judy
4:00 Totally Wild (HD)
4:30 The Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 News
6:00 The Simpsons: Homer the Great
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Big Brother
7:30 Everybody Loves Raymond: The Annoying Kid (HD)
8:00 Everybody Loves Raymond: She’s the One (HD)
8:30 Law & Order: SVU: Pixies
9:30 Law & Order: Trial by Jury: Truth or Consequences (HD)
10:30 News
11:00 Sports Tonight
11:30 Big Brother Up-Late
1:30 Bread
1:55 Video Hits Up-Late
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Joyce Meyer
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 Life Today with James Robison
5:30 This Is Your Day with Benny Hinn
SBS
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
12:05 Indonesian News
12:30 Business Report
1:00 Dateline
2:00 The Price of Aid
3:00 Subsonics
3:30 School Torque
4:00 World Sport
4:30 The Journal
5:00 PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Cycling: Tour de France Highlights
6:30 World News
7:00 World Sport
7:30 Bronski & Bernstein: Blue Eyes
8:20 Hotline
8:30 Storyline Australia: Trafficked – The Child Sex Trade
9:30 World News Tonight
10:00 Cycling: Tour de France (Live)
1:00 Temporary Close
5:00 WeatherWatch & Music
5:25 Japanese News
Source: TV Week Magazine
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I use to watch Passions on Prime during the early 2000s & still to this day I still can’t make heads or tails what Passions was about!
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With the Good Friday Appeal on today in Melbourne, here was the TV guide for the Good Friday Appeal in 1967, 50 years ago.
In those days the Appeal didn’t even get regional coverage, although 3DB which would have a radiothon all day could get picked up fairly well in country areas and would have got relayed too via 3LK (now 3WM) in Horsham, which was a relay station for 3DB in those days.
Source: Listener In-TV
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The battle between good and evil 
and Timmy!
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When did TV guides in Australia stop using that format without separate columns for different channels? And what are the 1,2,3,4 boxes next to the ABC listings for?
I assume the regional stations of ABC
ABAV 1 Albury, ABEV 1 Bendigo, ABSV 2, ABGV 3, ABMV 4etc
TV Scene (the latter name of Listener In/TV) used that format right up to its last edition in 1987.
TV Week stopped using that format in the 1960s before it converted to A4 size.
TV Times also had that listing format until about 1964 or 65.
The Sun and The Herald newspapers in Melbourne went from that old bullet listing to columns during the 1980s.
Correct. If you look down to the country listings it says refer to “2” listing for ABC regionals.
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Different Highway Patrol. This was a US drama series from the late 1950s.
We know 
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whoosh
Today’s TV, 16 April 1974, for Melbourne. Class Of '74 is getting big ratings for Seven at 7.00 but Great Temptation, previously at 7.00 but bumped to 8.30 following the failure of talk show JC At 8.30, is doing poorly up against Number 96.
And here’s the same day for Tasmania, covering ABC, TVT6 Hobart and TNT9 Launceston:
Source: TV Week
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Some great shows there.
I loved Class of 74 even thought I was only a youngster! Loved the theme song, so 70s!
I was only 2 when the show started but did used to catch the mid-morning reruns in the early 80s if i had a day off school or it was school holidays.
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I was 6. I remember class of 74 and 75. There was a singer Marty Rhone who was very popular at the time who I think starred in it too.
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Interesting thought. Considering the reception of TV from Mt Lofty (Adel) in the Riverland, it wouldn’t be a stretch to consider that broadcast quality off air reception would have been quite achievable from Loxton.
Former RTS 5A GM, Wendy Mudge, now running a B&B would know.
Interesting that on those occassions that NBN and WIN went all night. I do have some recallection that on weekends they’d have a late movie and would sign off at about 2am And of course when NBN Showed Ashes series from England it would be 3am at the end of the day’s play
Also on not knowing when the Logies would finish. Seems not much has changed in 35 years.