Didn’t the English Premier League start in 1992?
@stilesykenny The English Premier League didn’t exist until the 1992/93 season when it replaced Division One of the Football League as the top league in England. Every team in the Premier League played each other twice within the season, one game away and one at home, and were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw.
1 Like
Sooooo, that’s a yes to your question, Kenny.
Ten showed a 15-minute yoga lesson at mid morning. How long did the program last for?
1 Like
Back home (in New Zealand), TVNZ produced a five-minute yoga session called “Yoga with Sandra Riddle”. It aired on TV One (now TVNZ 1) in a mid-morning slot on weekdays during the early 1980s.
1 Like
Don’t know, but it was probably presented by Swami Sarasvati. She was a regular on TV those days
2 Likes
… Swami Sarasvati had been going since the 60’s … we recorded a few of her programs at SAS10 in Adelaide when she was over teaching some classes … 
3 Likes
Love to know the reasoning behind how WBQ’s TV station was established in Maryborough instead of Bundaberg, Hervey Bay or Gympie.
Perhaps it was the largest population base at the time, or was a more central location for news/production crews to travel.
Bruce Paige was its newsreader in the late 60’s I believe before moving to ABC Brisbane.
1 Like
… Maryborough was the location of all government services for the region and had a major regional airport … Bundaberg was a sleepy rural cane-farming area, Hervey Bay was a beachside caravan park and Gympie was just a dot on the way north from Brisbane …
3 Likes
WBQ would later setup a relay station at Black Mountain (Gympie).
And rum-farming?
1 Like
would have loved to have taken a sickie from school that day. Matlock Police, Celebrity Squares, Homicide. Probably even Good Times!
I would certainly have watched Battle Of The Planets after school anyway. It was doing the rounds for years. My much younger brother would end up watching it in re-runs a decade later on ABC.
The Love Boat was always corny. Never really got into that much. My parents would have watched Cop Shop then switch over to The Don Lane Show.
2 Likes
I don’t recall Battle Of The Planets at all even though it is listed in Sydney guides.
I love that Nine had two half hour dramas bookending the news in 1979 and both were successful. I’ve been watching a few episodes of The Young Doctors in recent weeks on YouTube. The production values were shoddy as hell and the dialogue laughable but the actors made the most of what they had to work with and delivered something that is engaging in a cartoonish, Mills and Boon way. Many of the streets and buildings around TCN Willoughby are recognisable in outside scenes. There’s a blatant play for the Melbourne audience in one ep with shots of Rebecca Gilling and Alan Dale hitting every landmark in that city in a sequence that ends with them at a registry office. The budget didn’t extend to outside audio with the actor’s lines overdubbed into the scenes, their mouths not moving to the words. Still devastated Liz Kennedy was electrocuted on her wedding night.
Rumours keep resurfacing Young Doctors is ripe for a reboot. Seems like a no brainer considering the melodrama of MAFS attracts audiences in droves.
5 Likes