… of course Doug Mulray’s Naughtiest Home Videos didn’t make it to the end of one episode thanks to a phone call from Kerry Packer …
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Peter Ford had the scoop on the story about Packer’s direction and reported the details that night on the Stan Zemanek show on 2UE. That’s back when Ford was a very good entertainment reporter.
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Melbourne/Gippsland, Sunday 31 May 1981
from TV Week
ABC
11.00 Divine Service (from St. Peter’s Lutheran College, Inderphilly, Qld)
noon Countrywide
12.40 Sow What
1.00 Four Corners
1.40 British Open Squash Championships
3.30 Sunday Spectrum
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News
7.40 To Serve Them All My Days (PGR/finale)
8.30 Therese Raquin (AO)
9.40 News/Weather
9.50 The Shock of the News
10.50 World of Music (Saint-Saens concert by the Melbourne Symphony)
11.20 close
HSV7 Melbourne
8.45 It is Written
9.15 Sunday Magazine
9.30 VFL Junior Supporters Club
10.00 World of Sport Replay
11.00 World of Sport
2.20 Statewide Cup football: Melbourne v North Melbourne
5.00 In Search of…the San Andreas Fault
6.00 News
6.30 World of Disney
7.30 Against the Wind
8.30 Movie “The Cross” (AO)
10.35 Movie “The 39 Steps” (bw)
12.15 Insight (PGR)
GLV8 Gippsland
8.00 Jimmy Swaggart
9.00 Ambassador College (World Tomorrow)
9.30 Rex Humbard
10.00 It is Written
10.30 Sunday Magazine
10.45 Point of View
11.00 World of Sport
2.15 Movie “Lullaby of Broadway” (bw)
3.50 Basketball: highlights of Australian U18 girls’ championships
4.10 Bonanza
5.05 Young Talent Time
6.00 News
6.30 Looking Around
6.35 World of Disney
7.30 Eight is Enough (PGR)
8.30 Movie “The Wind and the Lion” (PGR)
10.25 The FBI (PGR)
11.25 Religious Program
11.55 close
GTV9 Melbourne
6.00 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
6.30 King Leonardo
7.00 Look, Listen, Laugh & Learn
7.30 Untamed World
8.00 Day of Discovery
8.30 Good News
9.00 Rex Humbard
9.30 Kenneth Copeland
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.20 Enough is Enough
11.50 Point of View
noon Movie “Call Me Madam”
2.00 Movie “The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County”
4.00 Seven Seas
5.00 Nature of Things
5.30 Diff’rent Strokes
6.00 News
6.30 New Faces
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie “Posse” (AO)
10.30 Taxi
11.00 Monte-Carlo Grand Prix auto race (live)
1.45 Movie “Valley of the Eagles” (PGR)
3.15 Movie “The Magnificent Seven” (PGR)
5.10 Seaway (PGR)
ATV10 Melbourne
7.30 You Say the Word
8.30 Hour of Power
9.30 Mass for You at Home
10.00 Greek Variety Show
11.00 Variety Italian Style
noon Movie “Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?”
1.45 VFA Football
5.00 Six Million Dollar Man
6.00 News
6.30 M.A.S.H.
7.30 Magnum, PI (premiere)
8.30 Movie “Agatha” (PGR)
10.20 Van der Valk
11.20 Matlock Police (bw)
12.20 close
Network 0-28
6pm Once Upon a Time…Man (Spanish dub; the series was produced by a French company in partnership with a consortium of international broadcasters, mainly European)
6.30 Movie “My Lonely Father” (Yugoslavia)
7.30 Cabaret
8.30 Movie “The Policeman” (Israel)
10.30 Scoop
11.30 close
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Melbourne TV: Friday 31 May 1974
from The Age
Today airs for the last time: the repeats of Catwalk and HSV7’s mid-morning movie were also cancelled. From Monday 3 June, the station axes its morning shows and moves its sign-on time to 11am.
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11am seems a little late even in 74, given GTV & ATV signs on at 7am, even ABV signs on at 8am, seems HSV didn’t care too much about morning television & would rather air a test pattern instead.
I’d rather see them air a test pattern instead today. 
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Up until 1981 HSV7 was still only signing in at 10am. It was only during that year that they extended it to 7am with cartoons etc
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…Instead of reality TV.
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Even Brisbane & Gold had the VFL Match of the Day live as well as Sydney while the Aussie Rules Heartlands were Restricted to Replays.
Possibly to cater for expats
CTC Canberra, MTN Griffith (but not the other Midstate TV stations) and RVN Wagga also took the VFL Match of the Day live.
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Yes I do remember SBS’s Saturday night programming in the nineties, Liquid Television was a fave, that show introduced Aeon Flux to the world. And the movie The Living End is NOT a film about the Melbourne band. I think I saw that movie on SBS.
Saturdays on SBS used to mean Iron Chef and RockWiz, although the latter I soon tuned out from as the “famous” musician contestants were becoming more and more obscure to me as the show went on (i.e. I was getting older and wondering more and more ‘who are these people’?!) 
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HSV7 had a local late news bulletin in 1982. When was it replaced by a national one?
1987 when Fairfax took over HSV.
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