My mum used to watch a lot of those back in the day. But now she’s retired even just to mention DOOL etc being still on she is mortified to think she used to watch those shows. Just out of curiosity I watched one episode of DOOL recently and, wow, it’s hard to tell it apart from Dumb Street levels of parody.
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… funny story about the ABC clock in Adelaide in the 70s … it was a pulse clock, centrally timed in MCR and distributed around the system … there was one in the studio and one day someone leaned a stepladder too hard against the wall and damaged the cable … not enough to stop the clock completely, but enough to confuse it and make it run backwards … in those days the clock was put up before each schools program during the day … it ran backwards for most of the day before someone noticed 
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I got hooked on Y&R at one stage because it was always on after school, watched it for a few years and got attached to the characters and storylines. Wouldn’t bother with it these days but I occasionally look at the fan sites to see how storylines for certain characters played out over the years and discover what became of the actors. Can’t stand soap style drama now but love limited series dramas- the ones the Brits do well, the odd Netflix title and the HBO/Showtime dramas.
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i bet thousands of school kids who were watching and inevitably doing the countdown out loud at the last few seconds before the next schools show started would have noticed 
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i was surprised to discover that General Hospital is still going. More than 14000 episodes! I thought it had been axed years ago.
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@TelevisionAU General Hospital has been on daytime television in the United States since its very first episode way back on 1 April 1963 through the ABC television network.
According to Wikipedia, it is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running US soap opera in production, and the second in American history after Guiding Light. Concurrently, it is the world’s third longest-running scripted drama series in production after British serials The Archers and Coronation Street, as well as the world’s second-longest-running televised soap opera still in production.
General Hospital is the longest-running serial produced in Hollywood, and the longest-running entertainment programme in ABC television history. It holds the record for most Daytime Emmy Awards for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, with 13 wins.
Today, General Hospital is still airing in the United States on ABC.
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Melbourne, Friday 21 February 1958
from The Age
ABV2
12.30-1.00 Demonstration Film
3.30-4.00 Life with Riley
5.00-5.40 Children’s TV Club
7.00 News/Weather
7.18 Movie Museum
7.30 Frankie Laine
8.00 Sherlock Holmes
8.30 Profile on Algeria
9.00 Look Who’s Dropped In
9.30 State of the Nation in Agriculture
10.00 close
HSV7
5.15 Young Seven
6.00 Mickey Mouse Club (includes Newsreel)
6.53 News/Weather
7.00 Jungle Jim
7.30 Whirlybirds
8.00 OSS
8.30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9.00 Dinah Shore (guests Ann Miller and Fred MacMurray)
10.00 Happy Gang
11.00 Racket Squad
11.30 Sports Talk
mid. close
GTV9
5.15 Happy Show
6.15 Popeye Theatre
6.36 News (includes Professor Browne’s Study and weather)
7.00 Kit Carson
7.30 Ray Milland
8.00 Pressure Pak Show
8.30 AKI Theatre “The Charlatan”
9.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight (news airs around 10.30)
10.50 Night Owl Theatre “Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel”
12.20 close
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It seem the following year (1959) the commercial stations extended their broadcast times to midday.
a couple of B-Grade movies on channels 2 and 10: “I Walked with a Zombie” and “I Married A Monster from Outer Space” respectively. Both would not be out of place on Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest on ATV0 in the 60s.
Three Ladies and Their Hot Dog Stand on SBS, it was a German comedy series and it ran for 15 years. The German title was “Drei Damen vom Grill”. Most episodes are available on Youtube if you can speak the lingo.
Ten started doing that in 1989 with Elvira presenting B-Grade movies
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Nine had primetime highlights of Calgary Winter Olympic Games every night. (It would be the first of three consecutive Winter Olympics to air on Nine - the other two were Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994).
Did it show any live events at all?
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I don’t think so
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Following up from yesterday’s post with a look at what aired in Sydney on the same day (21 Feb 1958) from the Sydney Morning Herald…
ABN2
2.00 Royal Tour (Queen Mother’s arrival at Kingsford Smith Airport, and later at Sydney Town Hall and Government House)
4.00 Look
4.30 Thermal Wonderland (visiting NZ)
5.00-5.45 Children’s TV Club
7.00 News/Weather
7.17 People in the News
7.35 Assignment Foreign Legion
8.00 Find the Link
8.30 War in the Air
9.00 It Couldn’t Happen
9.30 Handyman Session
10.00 Camera Club
10.30 close
ATN7
10.00 Music
2.00 Arrival of the Queen Mother
4.00 Leave It to the Girls
4.30 Your Home
5.00 Captain Fortune
6.00 Picture Time “The Man from Rainbow Valley” (pt 2)
6.30 Cartoon Corner
6.40 ATN News/Weather (extended to 20 min for the Royal Visit)
7.00 Kellogg’s Wild West Show “Cisco the Magician”
7.30 Ray Milland
7.59 News of the Hour
8.00 Jack Davey & the Pressure Pak Show
8.30 AEI Theatre “The Seeds of Hate”
8.59 News of the Hour
9.00 Alfred Hitchcock
9.30 Sydney Tonight
10.30 This I Believe
10.45 Late News
11.00 close
TCN9
10.00 Hi Fi Music/test pattern
2.00 Royal Visit
4.54 Give Us This Day
5.00 Texas Rangers
5.30 Desmond & the Channel Ninepins
6.00 Mickey Mouse Club
6.45 News/Weather
7.00 Circus Boy
7.30 Bengal Lancers
8.00 Celebrity Playhouse
8.30 Churchill-The Man
9.30 Trotting Championships/Wrestling
11.00 close
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Today’s TV: 20.2.1971, Melbourne
Source: Listener In-TV
Interesting Saturday morning scheduling by GTV9. Burning off episodes of its failed 1970 series The Link Men in the unusual timeslot of 8.30 Saturday mornings, followed by re-runs of its former spy drama Hunter.
I reckon Channel 0 would have had the lead on Saturday mornings with Happening '71 going live for 4 hours
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I never knew Peter Landy was at GTV9 before joining HSV7, always associated him with Seven.
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Sadly little remains of all these pop shows like Happening '71. Although some Hit Scenes are coincidently airing on Rage tonight.
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