I’ve got the same issue, but for WA. I’ve posted the Perth/South West WA guide here but to be honest there’s not much to be gained from this with all the "TBA"s listed!
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Penthouse was mostly seen only in Melbourne and relayed to BCV/GLV/STV (not so sure about the other regional stations in Victoria) but apparently it did have a stint towards the end of its run being relayed also to Tasmania
I wonder if this was like paid programming where they’d buy up slots all around the place? Or maybe they just gave the program away for free and stations snapped it up to help fulfil their obligation to religious programming?
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Never seen so many TBA’s on the one day. Are the other days like that or is just the Saturday?
Similar on the other days during the week. The only night TVW7 presents a full schedule is the Tuesday night. On other weeknights it has programs listed up to Blankety Blanks at 7.35pm and then TBAs from 8.10 onwards.
STW9 on weeknights has programs up to The Young Doctors (7pm) then goes into TBAs until 10.30-11pm when some late night programs manage to get a mention.
ABC and the regional channels all seem to have their act together with hardly any TBA entries
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Melbourne TV: Friday 11 March 1994
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Out of Empire
6.30 Australia TV News
7.00 First Edition
7.30 Marketing: Theory & Practice
8.00 Aboriginal Studies
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 The Magic Library
10.15 Arts Place
10.30 Zardip’s Search for Healthy Wellness
10.45 Look Up
11.00 Mechanical Universe
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Race to Save the Planet (premiere)
2.00 Foreign Correspondent
2.55 Consuming Passions
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
4.00 Play School
4.30 Babar
4.55 Nellie the Elephant
5.00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
5.25 Bananaman
5.30 Rugrats
6.00 All in a Day’s Work
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century (the Jonestown massacre)
8.28 News
8.30 Movie “Love Me or Leave Me”
10.30 News
10.40 Movie “Drowning By Numbers”
12.30 Australia TV News
1.00 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Sons & Daughters
6.30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9.00 The Book Place
9.30 At Home
10.30 NBC Nightly News
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “The Ann Jillian Story”
2.00 After Henry
2.30 Fresh Fields
3.00 Perfect Strangers
3.30 Family Ties
4.00 DuckTales
4.30 Blockbusters
5.00 Family Feud
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Real Life
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 The Great Outdoors
8.30 Movie “Sins of the Mother”
10.30 Movie “Sins of the Father”
12.30 NBC Today
2.30 Movie “The Assault”
4.45 Aboriginal Australia
5.05 Beyond 2000
GTV9
6.00 Bill Cosby’s You Bet Your Life
6.30 News (includes Business Today)
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Ernie & Denise
10.30 News
11.00 What’s Cooking
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Derryn Hinch
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Evening Shade
4.00 Davis Rules
4.30 Wonder World!
5.00 Paradise Beach
5.30 Price is Right
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “See No Evil, Hear No Evil”
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Late Show with David Letterman
12.10 Rugby League: Eastern Subrurbs v. St. George
2.20 In Concert (from 1991; featuring INXS, Lenny Kravitz and Sinead O’Connor)
3.20 Movie “Mortgage”
5.10 Thunderbirds
ATV10
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Big Breakfast
8.30 Mulligrubs
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.00 General Hospital
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 Donahue
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Live It Up
4.00 Hogan’s Heroes
4.30 Totally Wild
5.00 News
6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Alan Jones Live
7.30 Are You Being Served?
8.30 Grace and Favour
8.30 P.D. James Mysteries with Detective Dalgliesh
10.45 News
11.10 Sports Tonight
11.40 Alan Jones Live (repeat)
12.10 Streets of San Francisco
1.10 In Living Color
2.10 Movie “Bright Spark”
4.00 Movie “Julia Misbehaves”
SBS
6.30 Dateline (repeat)
7.00 Le Journal
7.30 The Journal
8.00 Chinese News
8.30 Novosti
9.00 Das Journal
9.30 WeatherWatch & Music
11.30 (Nightly) Business Report
12.00 English at Work
12.30 Movie “Cover-Up” (France)
2.30 Graduate Education
4.30 TV Ed
5.00 FYI (in Arabic)
5.05 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
6.00 People & Places: Japanese Language & People
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dateline
7.30 Imagine (magazine about arts, entertainment and design)
8.00 Harry Enfield’s Guide to the Opera
8.30 People “The Parade” (Polish documentary)
9.30 Movie “Vlad the Impaler” (Romania)
11.15 Comic Strip Presents “Gregory: Diary of a Nut Case”
11.55 Movie “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror” (Germany)
1.00 Movie “Better Days Ahead” (Brazil)
2.30 sign-off
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Mulligrubs, Paradise Beach, Alan Jones Live. Yep it’s the 90s!
Alan Jones asking “Mr Humphries, Are you free?”
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You can tell Sale of the Century was flavour of the month considering it was scheduled at 7pm on every commercial regional station.
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Fascinating to see very different finishing times for the Logies on every regional station 
which probably just showed that none of them had any idea how long it was going to go for 
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Also noticing WIN and NBN had movies all night.
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Today’s TV: 12.3.1980, Melbourne
Well what was planned to go to air when TV Week went to press.
A power strike meant a 3pm start.
Arcade had been replaced by Hogans Heroes.
Nine had put a movie in the 7.30pm - 9.30pm slot.
Source: TV Week
From TV Guide on Nine’s scheduling changes
And a Fidgeon cartoon on the Don Lane show’s move to 4 nights a week (which would only last until the end of March when it would go back to Monday & Thursday)
Source: TV Guide
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If the power situation was really bad during a strike, TV in Victoria was restricted to just 6pm-8pm. Qld and NSW had similar power issues back then but TV was not restricted at all.
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Man, can you imagine if there was a power strike in this day and age? People would be out for blood.
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I didn’t know Robert Fidgeon was a great cartoonist too.
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He did do weekly cartoons for many years mainly in TV Scene.
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Yes, it would not go down well at all. TV broadcasting is an essential service so it would not shut down if something similar happened these days.
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The unions don’t have as much power as they used to.
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