Today’s TV: 16.5.2008, Melbourne. Free-to-Air
Pay-TV / Digital (ABC2)
Source: TV Week
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Today’s TV: 16.5.1989, North Queensland / Mackay / Mount Isa
Source: The Sunday Mail / Scene On TV (North Queensland edition)
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 18 May 1974 (Federal Election Day)
from The Age
ATV0
8.00 Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival
9.30 Crusader Rabbit
10.30 Candid Camera (repeat)
11.00 On Safari
11.30 Rovers
12.00 Barrier Reef
12.30 World Evangelism
5.30 News
6.00 Brady Kids
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 Bob Hope
8.30 Election Results
10.30 Movie “Call Northside 777”
12.30 sign-off
ABV2
9.00 test pattern/music
12.30 Chess: Challenge to Fischer
12.50 Sportsview
12.55 Super Snooker
1.20 1974 Scottish FA Cup final: Glasgow Celtic v. Dundee United
3.00 Rugby: New Zealand All Blacks v. NSW (from the SCG)
4.30 Show Jumping: International Horse Show 1970
5.10 Car Racing: Warwick Farm series
5.20 Sporting Round-Up
5.35 Hammy Hamster’s Adventures on the River Bank
5.50 Magic Ball
6.05 Fly Into Danger
6.30 Today’s Football (VFL highlights)
6.55 Weather
7.00 News, followed by League Replay
8.15 Four Corners
8.45 Election Results
12.00 Certain Women
12.45 sign-off
HSV7
7.45 test pattern/music
8.00 Do It on Saturday (Basil Brush, Jambo, followed by the movie “Bikini Beach” and Adventures of Black Beauty)
12.00 A Tribute to Dogs (movies: “Challenge of Rin Tin Tin” and “Hills of Home”; VFL updates on St. Kilda v. Collingwood air at 1.55, 2.25, 3.05, 3.55 and 4.25)
4.30 This Week Has Seven Days
5.30 Jeopardy
6.00 News
6.30 Football Inquest
7.00 Football Replay (highlights of VFL games: St. Kilda v. Collingwood, Essendon v. Richmond and Hawthorn v. Carlton; includes Election Update at 8.00)
8.25 Penthouse Club (includes Election Update at 9.00, Tattslotto at 9.30)
10.00 Election Results
followed by sign-off (time not listed)
GTV9
7.15 test pattern/music
7.30 Playroom
8.00 Hey Hey It’s Saturday!
11.00 Gene Autry Hour
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Tales of Wells Fargo
1.30 Movie “Thunder in the Sun”
3.00 Soccer: Juventus v. George Cross
5.00 Men of the Sea
6.00 News
6.30 Rawhide
7.30 Ironside (2-hour episode)
9.30 Election Results
12.00 Movie “Warriors Five”
2.00 Epilogue, followed by sign-off
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To compare, the Sydney guide for the same day:
Source: SMH
The ABC and Nine would have had the same coverage in Sydney and Melbourne I pretty sure, but I wonder what happened on Seven and 0 & Ten?
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Much later starts than what we are accustomed to these days, but IIRC polling booths were open until 8.00pm in those days. Is that correct?
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Yes, my memory is that voting closed at 8:00pm.
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yep til 1984
Today’s TV: 20.5.1985, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
And same day from the short lived TV Star
Source: TV Star
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I remember watching that first episode of Now You See It. 
I was most definitely watching V that night, too. And Neighbours.
TV Star was not a bad magazine, IIRC it was a re-work of the Star Enquirer which was a trashy celebrity/gossip rag to compete with the National Enquirer hitting the Australian market. TV Star only lasted about a year? It made a big deal out of having an 8-day program guide, Friday to Friday.
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HSV showed the crowning of 1985 Miss Teenage Quest on delay. Here is some background on the event.
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I too remember Now You See It, mainly the Mike Meade, and later Sofie Formica era on Seven.
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This edition was included free in some newspapers in NSW, Qld and Vic. They must have needed to greatly increase sales by then.
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I remember watching Now You See as a 5 year old around that time and being rather impressed with the set thinking that it was recorded in a spaceship! 
. But no, I do believe it was taped at BTQ7.
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yep, in the same studio in which I used to direct Wombat (if you could call trying to keep Agro and the twins on script “directing”)
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Probably more like laughing your head off with those folks in the studio!
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Kerry Armstrong from Prisoner and Seachange presenting weather on Nine?
Given she was born in 1958, she must’ve been barely out of school when she scored that job. I couldn’t imagine an 18 year old having a similar role on a metro bulletin in this era.
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