I remember it moved to Nine but wasn’t aware that it was on Friday nights as per the screen cap. Maybe that was a one-off?
I do remember they did a segment of The Golden Years Of Television as part of Channel Nine’s telethon for Life Education Centres. Featuring David Lyle and Ginger de Winter (played by now retired High Court judge Virginia Bell). They featured such gems as Be Our Guest which they’d somehow dug up from ABC. A confusing hybrid talk-drama-comedy-variety show.
But I loved Ginger and she and Lyle had a good chemistry. At the time I thought she was real. I didn’t realise until later she was a parody! I was a bit thick
it was on TV0. I can’t locate it now but there was a clip on YouTube featuring the episode of The Golden Years Of Television tribute to Number 96. It was taped from TV0 with PRG. That would have been about 1986.
It did air a couple of times in July 1988 in Melbourne at 8.30pm on a Friday. As The Addams Family had rated very well earlier in the year at 5.30pm (and even aired on Friday nights at 7.30pm) they may have thought this would get similar results.
I just remember that show. From memory it changed time slots from a midday start, then later pushed back to 1.00pm. Nine were very adamant to launch live programs throughout the afternoon around this time. Soon after the axing of “The Catch Up” we saw “This Afternoon” launch.
The catchup wasn’t that bad, the set was in the Today apartment set and had a tiny audience and looked very awkward there. The casting was a bit off and the look of the show wrong but it could have worked with tweaks and maybe as a replacement for Kerri Anne eventually
Just to clarify, The Catch Up debuted on 26 February 2007 at 1.00pm, not midday. It bumped Days Of Our Lives to 2.00pm, which in turn looks like it bumped The Young And The Restless off-air (later to resurface on Foxtel IIRC)
