Friday 31 December 2010
Photo credit SMH Green Guide
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The weekly TV and radio liftout in Monday editions of The Sydney Morning Herald was and still is “The Guide”.
It was The Age in Melbourne which has “The Green Guide” on Thursdays.
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Yes. And for many years it was informally called the pink Guide as it was printed on pink paper.
That television guide looks as if it is probably from The Sun-Herald, as I can’t recall the Monday Guide in The Sydney Morning Herald ever being in full colour. Edit: Then again, maybe it was.
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Do you recall if one of the afternoon Sydney newspapers was printed on green or yellow paper?
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The yellow paper television guide rings a bell, but I can’t remember if it was The Sun or The Daily Mirror.
Edit: A search of the SMH archives triggered my memory that The Sun racing guide was printed on yellow paper.
Source: SMH 16 Jul 1982
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Does anyone know how Dinner For One has become a traditional New Years Eve staple on SBS?
It’s not actually about New Years Eve. It’s an interesting comedy special but could never work out why it deserves a yearly airing.
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I’d imagine the fact that “Dinner For One” became a New Years Eve TV tradition overseas helped it make one for SBS here in Australia.
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I can see why The Good Guys tanked. I did get a couple of laughs out of the pilot episode. Interesting to see Stan Zbornak from The Golden Girls in an earlier role.
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SBS emulated what was already a well established tradition in Europe, particularly in Germany but in other European countries as well.
The sketch was made in the early 1960s but sometime in the early 1970s a German network had a gap in its schedule on New Year’s Eve and just happen to put this show on. It caught on and became a popular annual tradition. IIRC the show is broadcast multiple times across NYE in Germany alone.
Ironically, although the sketch was spoken in English it has largely gone unnoticed in much of the English speaking world, except Australia.
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Yes, a search of the German television guide shows it is scheduled multiple times across various channels.
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Very interesting. Thanks fellas.
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Today’s TV: 3.1.1981, Melbourne + the week on SBS
plus the week’s programs for Country Victoria
(The Melbourne edition would instead publish the Melbourne radio listings on these pages)
Source: TV Scene
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Melbourne TV listings: Sunday 5 January 1997
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
8.30 The Real Story of… “Baa Baa Black Sheep”
9.00 Ghostwriter
9.30 Adventures of Blinky Bill
10.00 Chris Cross
10.25 Bangers & Mash
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.35 Liturgy “Symbol and Song”
12.00 The Best of Landline
1.00 Between the Lines
1.30 Movie “The Importance of Being Earnest”
3.00 William Christie et Les Arts Florissants
4.10 The Vampire’s Life
5.00 The Great Picture Trail: Neil MacGregor’s Choice
5.10 The Trollopians (searching descendants of author Anthony Trollope)
6.00 House of Eliott
6.50 Consuming Passions “Down Under Pasta”
7.00 News
7.30 Middlemarch
8.25 News
8.30 Sunday Stereo Special “James Levine 25th Anniversary Gala” (from the Metropolitan Opera in New York; simulcast on ABC Classic FM)
11.30 Embassy
12.30 Movie “Three for All”
1.55 Movie “The Lamp Still Burns”
3.30 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
4.00 Time to Grow
4.30 French in Action
5.00 Growing Awareness
5.30 Against All Odds
Seven
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Lamb Chop’s Play-Along!
7.00 ZooLife with Jack Hanna
7.30 A*mazing
8.00 Jack & the Beanstalk
9.00 Movie “The Wild and the Free”
11.00 Tennis: Sydney International (day 1)
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 News
6.30 The World Around Us “Leopards and Hyenas: The Armies of the Night”
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 The Mummies
8.30 Movie “Big Business”
10.40/11.10 Duckman
11.40 Movie “Pete ‘n’ Tillie”
1.40 Telemall Shopping
2.40 NBC Today
3.40 NBC Meet the Press
4.40 Movie “Rock and Rule”
Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 CTA: Challenge “Down But Not Out”
7.00 Wonder World!
7.30 Adventures of Skippy
8.00 Boston Pops Celebrity Series
9.00 Away from It All
10.00 World of Discovery “Wolf: Return of a Legend”
11.00 Dudley Moore in Concert
12.00 Movie “Odette”
2.20 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (one-day, from Brisbane; Keno at 5.59)
6.00 News
6.30 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (cont’d)
10.15 Newsbreak
10.20 Wings
10.50 Movie “Leonora”
12.40 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (highlights)
1.40 Movie “This Side of the Law”
3.05 Spyforce
4.05 Naked City
4.35 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
5.05 Mark Walberg
Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Sword Fish
7.00 Deepwater Haven
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 Highway to Heaven
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 NRG
11.30 Ten Pin Bowling: Coca-Cola Classic
12.00 NBA Inside Stuff
12.30 Inside Sport
1.00 Indoor Cricket (game 2)
2.00 Motor Racing: round 3 of NASCAR
3.00 Triathlon: International Grand Prix (from Alice Springs)
5.00 News
5.30 Wonderful World of Disney (part 2 of “Third Man on the Mountain”)
6.30/7.00 The Nanny
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie “The 'Burbs”
10.35 News
11.05 Sports Tonight
11.35 Malibu Shores
12.35 Movie “Just My Luck”
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
SBS
7.30 Ukrainian News
8.00 Arabic News
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Apo Tin Ellada
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Australian Biography (profile of Phillip Law)
11.00 African Footsteps
11.30 Casa Mia (second generation Australians from Greek, Italian and Israeli backgrounds return to their parents’ country of origin)
12.30 Great Castles of Europe “Leeds Castle”
1.00 Speed Week
2.00 Tennis: Australian Men’s Hardcourt Championship final (from Adelaide)
6.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.30 World News
7.00 Tales from a Suitcase (part 4)
7.30 Our Century “1914-1918: Beyond the Front” (France; part 2)
8.30 TV World (examining the power of soap operas in Latin America; France)
9.30 Movie “Tale of Three Jewels” (Palestine)
11.20 Studs Terkel’s Chicago (British documentary)
12.20 Missing John Robertson
1.10 sign-off
Channel 31
5.30pm Greek Music
7.30 Egyptian TV
8.30 Folk Song Competition
9.30 Church of the Nazarenes/Zontas
10.00 Melbourne Musos
10.30 Croatian TV Vukovar
11.30 sign-off
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one hour of that annoying voice?
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Oh Mr Sheffield! 
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In 2018, there was talk of a possible reboot.
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The Nanny used to rate quite well on Ten on a Sunday Night.
Even my father who was in his 70s at the time switched over at the end of National Nine News to watch.
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I have to confess, i watched it too (and now regret it).
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