Sydney TV: Sunday 31 July 1977
from The Sun-Herald
ABN2
11.00 Divine Service (from Hobart)
12.00 The New Beginning
12.10 Squiggle
12.25 Toffsy
12.30 Ragtime
12.45 In Your Garden
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.45 Australian Beautiful Gardens
2.15 Movie “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”
3.55 QF2 on a Dover Three One
4.50 Banana Splits
5.35 Doctor Who (part 4 of “The Time Warrior”)
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News/Weekend Magazine
7.30 Cricket: highlights of England v. Australia
8.00 The Secret War “Battle of the Beans”
8.50 Pig in a Poke
10.05 News
10.15 The Age of Uncertainty
11.10 Music Makers (pianist Isador Goodman)
11.40 sign-off
ATN7
8.15 Mediator
8.45 These Children Are Ours
9.00 TV Tutorial
10.00 Rugby League: St. George v. Balmain (repeat)
11.00 Sportsaction
1.00 Movie “The Honeymoon Machine”
2.25 Movie “Destroy All Planets”
4.15 Movie “Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town”
6.00 News
6.30 Seven’s Big League: Balmain v. Parramatta
7.30 This is Your Life
8.00 Stepsoe and Son
8.30 Movie “Catlow”
10.30 Larry Grayson
11.00 Showbiz
11.30 Mediator (repeat)
12.00 sign-off
TCN9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Day of Discovery
7.30 Garner Ted Armstrong
8.00 Human Dimension
8.30 It is Written
9.00 Rex Humbard
10.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.55 Point of View
11.00 English Rugby League: Widnes v. Workington Town
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 World of Sport
2.00 Movie “Road to Zanzibar”
3.30 Movie “Bombers B-52”
5.30 Ask the Leyland Brothers
6.00 News
6.30 Survival of Sam the Pelican
7.30 Hawaii Five-O
8.30 Movie “The Anniversary”
10.20 Main Chance (premiere)
11.20 Good News
11.50 Human Dimension
12.20 sign-off
TEN10
8.00 You Say the Word
8.30 Junior Rugby League: Blacktown High v. Ashcroft High
9.30 Hour of Power
10.30 The Grecian Scene
11.30 I Know What’s Legal… Not What’s Right
12.00 Variety Italian Style
1.00 Movie “Walk Tall”
2.15 Movie “The Queen’s Guards”
4.30 Who, What or Where
5.00 High Chaparral
6.00 News
6.30 The Waltons
7.30 Bionic Woman
8.30 Movie “El Condor”
10.25 The FBI
11.25 The Compsosers
12.25 That’s the Difference
12.30 sign-off
I checked the listings from Sunday 24 July 1977 and TCN9 had a 24-hour transmission: the same happened on Sunday 7 August. Perhaps the 31 July sign-off was related to an equipment maintenance.
And with the Olympics finishing… Nine begins its overnight movie marathons, although technically they were already running movies overnight during its Olympic coverage. They couldn’t afford to run continuous live Olympic coverage overnight the satellite costs would have been prohibitive so they had to insert movies into the overnight coverage to fill the gaps.
GTV along with TCN Sydney are the first Australian Television stations to begin non stop 24/7 transmission, it took many years for rivals Seven & Ten to do the same.
Today’s TV: Canberra/Southern NSW
Thursday 2nd August, 1984
from the Canberra Times
The Olympic Games from Los Angeles dominated programming (CTC7 and WIN4 pre-empted coverage at noon with The Mike Walsh Show), and the final episode of “Sweet and Sour” aired on the ABC.
ABC
6.00 Time to Grow
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Marketing
7.30 Mixy
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Busy World Of Richard Scarry
8.25 Koki
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Pingu (final)
9.30 Play School
10.00 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.15 Rigolecole
10.25 Puzzle Maths
10.40 Scientific Eye
11.00 Inside Out
11.15 Worlds Of Faith
11.30 Perspective
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline (repeat)
1.00 Foreign Correspondent
2.00 The Bill
2.50 Consuming Passions
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Maisy
3.30 Play School
4.00 Kipper
4.10 Animal Shelf
4.20 Swinging
4.30 Albert the 5th Musketeer
4.55 Zoo Olympics
5.00 Wild Thornberrys
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Daria
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Stateline
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Supernatural: The Unseen Power of Animals
8.30 Dalziel & Pascoe
9.20 Eye to Eye with Betty Churcher
9.30 Silent Witness
10.20 News
10.25 Netball: Commonwealth Bank Trophy (final)
11.40 Rage
Seven
6.00 The Big Breakfast
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Denise
11.00 Home and Away (early episodes)
12.00 Movie "Avanti! (starring Jack Lemmon)
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 Bewitched
5.00 All-Star Squares
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
8.00 Teen Angel (premiere)
8.30 AFL: Essendon v. West Coast
11.30 News
12.00 Movie “The Last Warrior”
2.10 NBC Today
4.10 Telemall Shopping
5.10 My Three Sons (2 episodes)
Nine
6.00 Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Lois & Clark: New Adventures of Superman
10.30 Laverne & Shirley
11.00 News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 The Price is Right
3.30 Squawk! TV
4.00 Pick Your Face
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Wycliffe
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Wings
11.40 NRL: Sydney City v. Brisbane Broncos
1.50 Late Show with David Letterman
2.50 Victor Paul
3.50 Viper
4.50 High Adventure (sports)
5.00 Bimble’s Bucket
5.30 Zorro
Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 X-Men
7.30 Marvel Action Hour
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 News
12.00 7th Heaven
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Thunderstone
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Fantasy Island (1998 version)
8.30 Movie “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar”
10.40 News
11.10 Sports Tonight
12.10 Ground Zero
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz
4.00 Twin Peaks
5.00 This is Your Day
5.30 Jesus Television
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 The Long Shadow: The Lives of A-Bomb Orphans
1.25 Loose Nukes (US documentary on nuclear smuggling)
2.20 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 Insight (repeat)
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 100 Images of the 20th Century
8.00 More Vegetarian Dishes of the World
8.30 About Us “Searching for Amy” (British documentary on the disappearance of American teenager Amy Billig in 1974: includes an interview with her mother)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Why Do They Call it Love When They Mean Sex?” (Spanish comedy)
11.45 Movie “The Diary of Evelyn Lau” (Canadian drama starring Sandra Oh)
1.20 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
6pm Romanian Mozaic
7.00 Croatian TV Vukovar
8.00 In Search Of
8.30 This Week in Geelong
9.00 C’est la Vie
9 30 Egyptian Program
10.30 Cabaret at the Ivy
11.00 The Comic Box
11.30 Fishcam
Peter Couchman was a busy man at Channel 0, with the 7.00pm show in addition to his late night show IIRC. Interesting line-up of reporters there, too, including Derryn Hinch and Cornelia Frances. Peter Couchman’s Melbourne sounds like it was not dissimilar to a show tried by the same station (as Ten) in the same timeslot a couple of years later, Together Tonight.
Matlock Police was an odd one, too. The show had wrapped up production in 1975 and stopped airing during 1976, but for whatever reason Channel 0 held off screening the last handful of episodes until 1979. No idea what led to that little programming quirk.
The “Shell Presents” play They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful was performed live to air at ATN7 in Sydney in June and videotaped for broadcast on GTV9.
