Same day for Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
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Channel Ten has got The Australian Way listed, but this was made back in 1982 so despite the listing not indicating it as such, it may be a repeat in 1984.
Source: TV Week – though it incorrectly notes that Number 96 was a Reg Grundy production.
There is a video on YouTube of a program that matches the description from the article and listing but has the show titled A Salute To Aussie Sex Appeal
YouTube: Mike Squier
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“Wages of Fear” the movie on Seven at 8.30pm, this film was originally released as “Sorcerer”.
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 25 September 1993 (AFL Grand Final Day)
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Aboriginal Studies
9.30 Earth Revealed
10.00 Statistics: Against All Odds
10.30 French in Action
11.00 Out of Empire
11.30 Gardening Australia
12.00 Dream Machine
1.00 Saturday Afternoon Sport
1.05 Ballroom Dancing: 1993 Australian Open Dance Sport Championship (part 2)
2.00 English Soccer: highlights of Everton v. Liverpool
2.50 School Sport
3.00 American Football: NFL highlights
4.25 Gymnastics: Australian National Championships
4.45 Sports News
5.00 Yachting: World Match Race
6.00 Chronicles of Narnia
6.30 Surgical Spirit
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Keeping Up Appearances
8.00 One Foot in the Grave
8.25 News Update
8.30 The Bill
9.25 News Update
9.30 Birds of a Feather
10.00 Late Show
11.00 Movie “Heading Home”
12.30 Australia TV News
1.00 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Grand Final Football Marathon (cont’d)
8.00 Grand Final Breakfast
9.00 VSFL Under 18 Grand Final: Western v. Northern
11.00 VSFL Grand Final: Melbourne v. North Melbourne
2.00 AFL Grand Final: Carlton v. Essendon
6.00 News
6.30 Movie “Get Smart, Again!”
8.28 Tattslotto
8.30 Inspector Morse “Service of All the Dead”
10.45 Night Voices (a look at late-night radio in Australia)
11.45 AFL Grand Final replay
3.00 Nurses
3.30 The Last Oasis (documentary on the social life of Yugoslavia’s animal inhabitants)
5.00 Tumbler in the Sky (documentary)
5.55 Aboriginal Australia
GTV9
6.00 World Sport Special
6.30 New Archies
7.00 Denver the Last Dinosaur
7.30 Charlie Brown
8.00 Tiny Toons
8.30 What’s Up Doc?
11.00 Goodsports
11.30 Lawn Bowls: Jack High Tournament
12.30 Golf Show
1.00 Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (Keno airs at 5.59)
6.00 News
6.30 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
8.30 Movie “Stripes”
10.45 News
10.50 Movie “HOTS”
12.50 Rugby League Marathon
ATV10
6.00 Basketball Rebound
7.00 Debate!
7.30 Wild Weekend
8.30 Video Hits
12.00 Baseball Extra
1.00 Live It Up Weekend
2.00 Delta
2.30 Movie “Dear Brigitte”
4.30 Little House on the Prairie
5.30 New Faces with Bert Newton
6.30 National Geographic “Lost Kingdoms of the Maya”
7.30 Murder, She Wrote
8.30 The Fugitive (compilation of episodes of the 1960s TV series starring David Janssen)
11.30 News
12.00 Sports Tonight
12.30 NBL: Newcastle Falcons v. North Melbourne Giants
2.45 Just for the Record
3.15 Movie “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother”
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
12.30pm English at Work
1.00 Nomad
2.00 My Past Loves: A Greek Song Anthology
3.00 Thus Spake the City (Greece)
3.30 Movie “Tomorrow Will Be Better” (Netherlands)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dateline
8.00 30-Minute Theatre “Mother’s Day” (UK)
8.30 The Polish Cauldron (Poland)
9.30 Movie “Le Petit Soldat” (France)
11.15 Movie “Larks on a String” (Czechoslovakia)
12.50 Movie “The Ambush” (Serbia)
2.05 sign-off
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Essendon would go on to win the Grand Final, 133 points to Carlton’s 89.
I was probably watching It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World on the B&W TV in the spare room while the parents would be watching the Grand Final on the colour TV 
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What was Nurses? a medical drama?
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So a spin-off of a spin-off?
That Grand Final was when Carlton beat Richmond, and was infamous for Helen D’Amico’s streak onto the MCG during the game. It was edited out of VHS and DVD copies of that game.
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It was also memorable for me in that my beloved Fitzroy won the Under 19’s premiership beating Melbourne. I remember seeing that game on GMV6 Shepparton on relay. Although the programme listing on HSV7 stated Sounds with Donnie Sutherland at 9am, Seven telecast the Under 19’s Grand Final instead, there is footage of it on youtube.
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It was shown in full during a late-night replay on 7Two when it first launched.
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Nice touch with the ‘R’ inside the rainbow circle.
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Return To Eden! I remember the hype about it at the time but I never saw the original, just the spin-off series that happened a few years later. Channel Ten really went to town with these big budget mini-series in the '80s. Seven and Nine did as well but I think Ten really became defined by them. Obviously a lot more money around to invest in those days and probably without the government subsidies that so many dramas rely on now.
Super Niche trivia: There’s A Girl In My Soup (HSV7, midday) was shown on Network Ten on the night of New Year’s Eve, 31 December 1999.
I have an audio tape recording of UHF Documentary (SBS, 4.50pm) somewhere. I must try and digitise it. It was to educate us all about upgrading to UHF as SBS knew that its VHF days were limited.
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