Today’s TV: 13.3.1974, Melbourne
Source: The Sun
Today’s TV: 13.3.1986, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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Regional Queensland, Friday 14 March 1975
from TV Week
MVQ6 Mackay
1.00 color test pattern
2.00 General Hospital (bw/A)
2.30 Catwalk (bw)
2.50 Shopping Spree
3.00 Days of Our Lives (bw/A)
3.30 Tom & Jerry
3.55 Stamps with a Story (bw)
4.00 Laramie (bw)
4.50 National Fitness Club
5.00 Professor & the Enquiring Minds
5.30 Dusty’s Trail
6.00 National News
6.40 Young Talent Time
7.30 Medical Centre (bw/A)
8.30 Kojak (AO)
9.30 Local News
9.40 Seven Seas
10.30 Just a Minute
10.35 close
RTQ7 Rockhampton
5.00 Tom & Jerry
5.30 Professor & the Enquiring Minds
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Local News (bw)
6.35 Dusty’s Trail
7.00 Here We Go Again
7.30 Brian Keith
8.00 TV Week Logie Awards
9.25 Number 96 (bw)
10.25 close
TNQ7 Townsville/FNQ10 Cairns
4.00 This Week Has Seven Days (bw)
4.20 Mt. Safety
4.25 Eye Spy
4.30 Captain Scarlet (bw)
5.00 Osmond Brothers
5.30 Black Beauty
5.57 Weather Report
6.00 National News
6.25 Local News
6.35 A Current Affair
7.00 Hogan’s Heroes
7.30 Homicide
8.30 Upstairs, Downstairs (A)
9.30 Defenders (A)
10.25 Italian Panorama (bw)
10.40 close
ITQ8 Mount Isa
5.30 Mister Ed
6.00 News
6.10 Safety Ahead
6.15 Lost in Space
7.15 Chicago Teddy Bears
7.45 Barnaby Jones (A)
8.45 Late News
8.50 Movie “One Minute to Zero” (A)
10.40 close
WBQ8 Wide Bay
3.25 Billboard
3.30 Until Tomorrow
4.00 Teleclub
4.30 King Leonardo
5.00 Bonanza
5.55 Hook, Line & Sinker
6.00 National News
6.30 Class of '74
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Matlock Police
8.30 The Box
9.30 Dick Emery
10.00 High Chaparral (A)
11.00 Epilogue
11.05 close
DDQ10 Toowoomba/SDQ4 Warwick
2.10 Meditation
2.15 John Crook
2.45 Orson Welles (A)
3.10 Ours is a Nice House (A)
3.35 M * A * S * H (A)
4.00 Jayne Costello
4.50 Follyfoot
5.15 Junior Flyers Club
5.25 Brady Bunch
5.50 Sports Show
6.00 National News
6.25 Local News
6.35 A Current Affair
6.56 Weather
7.00 Class of '75
7.30 Division 4
8.30 The Box
9.30 Studio 9
10.30 Meditation
10.35 close
ABC
(NQ) regional program for Townsville, Cairns, Mount Isa, Julia Creek, Richmond, Cloncurry, Mary Katherine, and Hugenden tx
(CQ) regional program for Rockhampton, Mackay, Alpha, Clermont, Emerald, Baracaldine, and Longreach tx
8.00 Sesame Street
8.55 Magic Roundabout
9.05 Play School
9.30 For Schools: Behind the News (bw)
9.55 For Schools: Social Studies (bw)
11.00 For Schools: Scene (bw)
11.30 For Schools: Living Here & There (bw)
noon For Schools: ASEP (bw)
12.30 This Day Tonight
1.00 News
1.30 For Schools: For the Juniors (bw)
2.00 For Schools: Guten Tag Wie Geht’s
3.15 Flowerpot Men
3.30 Play School (bw)
4.00 Sesame Street
4.55 Adventure Island (bw)
5.25 Squiggle (bw)
5.35 Lassie
6.00 My Favorite Martian
6.30 regional programs:
NQ Points North (also airs Mondays at 6.30)
CQ Report
other areas see Challenging Sea
6.55 Regional News
7.00 News/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Games for Parents & Other Children
9.10 Mid-Evening News/Weather
9.15 A Family at War (A)
10.05 All About Music
10.50 Radio with Pictures
11.35 close
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Robert Fidgeon would go on to cop a slamming by the D-Gen on The Late Show.
Didn’t realise that Mr Ed was on the ABC. An American sitcom is a bit out of place with the rest of their schedule.
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ABC had quite a few US sitcoms back in the day. Among them The Donna Reed Show, F-Troop, Mr Ed, My Favorite Martian. It’s a pity they went away from that model and became totally UK centric with their overseas slate.
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Probably told by 7 and 9 and the Liberal party to stay away from the American stuff.
Remember, 7 and 9 told the American distributors they could sell only (for the most part) to them and stuff the regionals. NBN and WIN (most notably WIN) copped it a lot from them until the ABCB told them to piss off.
… not quite … it was Rupert Murdoch buying WIN 4 and then buying all the US product and holding it as ransom from 7 and 9 that changed things … the ABCB was useless …
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Newsworld probably started at about Midnight!
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Real late 80s TV listings there.
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“Neighbors” 
American spelling
The Funeral episode of Mother & Son still has people talking about it, 36 years later!
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Bruce McAvaney used to read Ch10 news sport?
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For about 5 years mixed in with various commentary commitments 10 had at the time. and was the most thorough sports segment on Melbourne news at the time.
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It appears it would be, ch7 and ch9 only had news for half an hour, where ch10 had the full hour
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MissBeavis10 YouTube.
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and Eddie McGuire at one stage too. Ten had a very strong sports reporting team also including Stephen Quartermain and doyens like Clem Dimsey and Rob Astbury. Considering Ten didn’t have any major sporting coverage apart from the races and the alternative VFA football competition, it would have been an impressive sports reporting line-up.
I remember an old article in The Age pleading for anyone that might have had a VHS copy of Ten’s coverage of the 1983 VFA Grand Final. Apparently it was long gone out of Ten’s archives but was thought to be of significant interest as it had Bruce McAvaney, Rex Hunt and Eddie McGuire all as commentators. Bruce was just arrived from Channel 7 in Adelaide and McGuire was an unknown then.
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