The 11 schedule was much better back then
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I canât remember if it was on Monday 10th or Tuesday 11th, but Ten in Melbourne on one (or both?) of those days at 6.00 instead of The Simpsons and Jamie Oliver carried a direct relay of the 5.00 Ten News from Brisbane for that hour.
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Most likely Tuesday 11th January
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Perth wouldâve had different Schedule that day on Channel Nine with the Australia-West Indies game finishing halfway of the Nanny on Ten.
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday 14 January 1989
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (contâd)
9.00 Best of The Factory
12.00 Rock Arena âRock & Roll: The Early Daysâ
1.00 Movie âWaikiki Weddingâ (starring Bing Crosby)
2.25 Movie âThe Wild Ponyâ
3.50 Artisans of Australia (glass craft)
4.15 The Greatest American Hero
5.05 Treasure Island in Outer Space
6.00 News
6.30 Horizons: River Journeys âThe Nileâ
7.25 Come and Get It
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs
8.25 News
8.30 Claws (BBC comedy)
9.45 Quo Vadis? (final of the Italian-British series)
10.50 Tales from the Darkside
11.15 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Flash Gordon
6.35 Clue Club
7.00 Super Saturday Show
9.00 Top 40 Video
11.00 Tennis: NSW Combined Championships
6.00 News
6.30 World Around Us âFirst Contactâ
7.30 Iron Man Grand Prix: highlights of 1989 Kelloggâs Nutri-Grain competition
8.28 Tattslotto/Super 66
8.30 Tennis: Rio International Menâs Tennis (from Adelaide)
12.00 Movie âInseminoidâ
1.45 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 One Hour to Zero
8.00 Movie âThe Little Convictâ
9.30 Golf: Daikyo Palm Meadows (day 3, from the Gold Coast)
2.20 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (from the MCG)
4.30 Golf: Daikyo Palm Meadows (contâd)
6.00 News
6.30/7.00 Mr. Merlin
7.29 Keno
7.30 Kung Fu
8.30 Remington Steele
9.30 Golden Years of Television âSuspenseâ (a nostalgic look at TV suspense, including The Twilight Zone, Hitchhiker, Alfred Hitchcockâs Man from the South and Boris Karloffâs thriller Pigeon from Hell)
11.30 News
11.35 Cricket: highlights of Australia v. West Indies
12.35 Golf: highlights of Daikyo Palm Meadows
1.40 Movie âZeppelinâ
3.40 Movie âThe Spider and the Spyâ
5.30 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 The World Tomorrow
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Early Bird Show Holiday Collection
12.00 Movie âFour Faces Westâ
2.00 Without Borders (documentary that focuses on five of the worldâs major rivers (the Amazon, Ganges, Mississippi, Nile and Zambesi) and shows the efforts being made to preserve these areas)
4.00 Tarzan
5.00 National Geographic âInvisible Worldâ (things invisible to the human eye)
6.00 News
6.30 Highway to Heaven
7.30 227
8.00 Amen
8.30 Movie âIntruder in the Dustâ
10.30 Movie âA Womanâs Vengeanceâ
12.30 Night Shift
5.00 Adventures of Superman
5.30 Wall Street Journal Report
SBS
2.30pm Movie âOscar, Kina and the Laserâ (Spain)
4.00 Painters âMarc Chagallâ
5.00 Noahâs Ark
5.30 Soccer: Euro '88 highlights
6.30 World News
7.00 A Gourmet Tour (premiere)
7.30 Five Challenges for the President (illegal Hispanic immigration in the US)
8.20 Paintbox
8.30 Movie âAparajitoâ (India)
10.20 Movie âDust of Empiresâ (France)
12.10 sign-off
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It must not have been easy for Nine to cover both golf and World Series cricket simultaneously, given there were no multichannels at the time.
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Nine typically didnât cover domestic golf I dare say for that very reason.
Be interesting to see what viewers in other states received in terms of golf coverage, must have just been late night highlights since it doesnât look like the golf altered tee times to finish before the cricket if they could come back for more later in the day.
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This was Nineâs schedule for the same day in Sydney (taken from Sydney Morning Herald)
TCN9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 One Hour to Zero
8.00 Movie âThe Little Convictâ
9.30 Golf: Daikyo Palm Meadows (day 3, from the Gold Coast)
2.20 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (from the MCG)
6.00 News
6.30 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies (contâd)
10.30 News
10.35 Golf: highlights of Daikyo Palm Meadows
11.35 Movie âThe Odd Coupleâ
1.40 Movie âZeppelinâ
3.40 Movie âThe Spider and the Spyâ
5.30 The Young Doctors
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Interesting that the major networks still appeared on the listings anyway - I assume to fill up space?
I would say so. Traditionally the Tasmanian edition also included the Melbourne channels.
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Faye De Lanty went on to be a presenter on Kerri-Anne, The Circle, and The Morning Show.
Todayâs TV: 16.1.1983, Melbourne
Plus, because TV Scene continued to split SBS from the other channels, hereâs a week of SBS 0/28 programs
Source: TV Scene
Sevenâs Sunday night movie, A Special Place, was a telemovie which IIRC was a pilot for a new series about a group of teenagers being âadoptedâ by an elderly lady . The pilot didnât go anywhere, hence getting burned off in a non-ratings Sunday night timeslot.
Seven did have better luck a few years later with another series about a group of wayward kids finding a home with a foster family, Home And Away.
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Loud and proud with that header right there.
Todayâs TV: 16.1.1982, Perth & South West WA
plus the weekâs programs on the other regional channels, VEW8 and GTW11
Source: TV Week
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Not actually a TV listing, but a record of a viewing by an officer of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board of BKN Broken Hill on 21 and 22 January 1969. All programs were scheduled to commence on the half hour, but it was noted by the ABCB that the programs started early due to a lack of advertising.
Source: NAA MP1897/1, BKN/19
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thatâs an awesome find, thank you for sharing it here.
Itâs very interesting to see the breakdown of the broadcast and the different elements.
But also, a fun (?) job for some Control Board staffer who gets deployed to spend two nights at a Broken Hill hotel just to monitor whatâs on TV and then gets the joy to spell it out over a manual typewriter! Some junior staffer probably been delegated that task!
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Todayâs TV: 17.1.2008, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
7HD, Ten HD and ABC2 buried on the pay-TV pages! And a very abridged version of the ABC2 guide at that.
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)n that day at the Australian Open, the 2006 runner-up Marcos Baghdatis defeated the 2005 champ, Marat Safin, in five sets to set up a classic third round duel with local favourite Lleyton Hewitt.
Had Safin won, it wouldâve been a repeat of the 2005 menâs final, which to my knowledge remains the most-watched tennis match of all time in Australia.
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