Today’s TV (ABC/SBS) and radio (RN/ABC FM): 8.8.1988
Source: The Listener. Which probably was an attempt at the British Radio Times model of covering only the national broadcaster(s). The magazine also took over in part from the former magazine 24 Hours that covered ABC FM. The Listener did not last very long.
Lists all of the CD information for each performance on ABC-FM. These days you can’t even find out which pieces of music are played.
Melbourne TV: Friday 11 August 1967
from The Age
ATV0
9.00 test pattern/music
10.30 Chit Chat
11.00 Magic Circle Club
12.00 June Allyson
12.30 Movie “Fools Rush In”
2.00 Emergency Ward 10
2.30 Stars in Action
3.00 Amos ‘n’ Andy
3.30 Our Miss Brooks
3.55 Storytime
4.00 Mr. Piper
4.30 Tom Terrific
5.00 The Flintstones
5.30 Go!
6.00 The Three Stooges
6.15 News
6.30 Patty Duke
7.00 The Pied Piper
7.30 Daniel Boone
8.28 News
8.30 Movie “Time Limit”
10.10 Maverick
11.05 News
11.20 Greatest Show on Earth
12.20 sign-off
ABV2
8.55 test pattern/music
9.05 Schools programming
10.05 Play School
10.30 test pattern/music
11.15 Schools programming
3.30 Donna Reed
3.55 Cartoons
4.05 Kimba the White Lion
4.25 Lassie
4.50 Forest Rangers
5.15 Doctor Who (part 1 of “The Tenth Planet”)
5.40 Crackerjack
6.30 Focus on Football
7.00 News (includes Newsreel)
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Softly, Softly
8.53 News
8.55 The Frost Report
9.25 21st Century (hosted by Walter Cronkite)
9.50 Swing in Time
10.00 News
10.10 Movie “I Am a Camera”
11.45 World Squash Championships highlights
12.15 sign-off
HSV7
11.50 Prologue
11.55 News
12.00 Beauty and the Beast
12.30 Movie “Summer Holiday”
2.00 Casebook
2.30 People in Conflict
3.00 Barry Creyton
3.30 Joey Bishop
4.00 The Jetsons
4.30 Casey Jones
5.00 Mickey Mouse Club
5.55 Happy Club
6.00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6.30 News
7.00 Football Show
7.30 The Monkees
8.00 John Forsythe
8.30 Movie “The Bad Seed”
10.55 Fighting Words
11.40 Review (includes News and Viewpoint)
12.00 sign-off
GTV9
10.00 test pattern/music
10.28 Prologue
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Concentration
12.00 Lucy Show
12.30 Movie “Smuggler’s Gold”
1.45 Fun with Food
2.00 Tommy Hanlon
2.30 Letter Charades
3.00 Divorce Court
3.30 Douglas Fairbanks Theatre
4.00 Casper Cartoons
4.30 Wyatt Earp
5.00 National Velvet
5.30 Marine Boy
6.00 Rifleman
6.30 News (includes Newsreel)
7.00 McHale’s Navy
7.30 Bobby Limb’s Sound of Music
8.30 Movie “Love and the Frenchwoman”
10.40 The Untouchables
11.40 News
11.55 World Championship Wrestling
12.55 Epilogue/sign-off
What was Nightfax about (BTQ7, 12.15am)? Was it a teletext service?
My guess is yes.
debut of a little show called Towards 2000. The beginning of what became a production empire that continues today.
Big night of drama for Ten… four shows in a row but The Restless Years was soon to get the chop, Holiday Island must have already on the way to being axed, and Bellamy just never got renewed AFAIK.
Looking at SBS and Rosa The Country Girl (Rosa de Lejos) I seem to recall went for some years on SBS. Back when SBS used to actually show an interest in foreign drama series.
SBS really has strayed far from their original charter.
almost all SBS foreign-language non-news content have been shifted on to SBS On Demand.
World Movies was supposed to be some concession to critics of SBS not fulfilling its charter in regards to foreign language content. I’m not sure it fully meets the brief but it is something at least.
10’s double header of rugby league at 6 and 10:30 saw wins to Manly and Balmain.
An unusually early start for Seven’s coverage into Sydney in 1988 - 10:20pm - notated as highlights for 100 mins.
ABC had a drama series in 1988 called House Rules, starring Jacki Weaver. Not to be confused with Seven’s home renovation series of the same name.
