Today’s TV: 27.9.1996, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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*I Do, I Do at 7.30pm on Ten…don’t think that show lasted long.
*A few programs listed in that guide which wouldn’t see the light of day now: Roseanne, Hey Dad, Burkes Backyard.
*Lethal Weapon 2 and Kindergarden Cop: Movies that were replayed frequently on Nine and Ten respectively during the 1990s/2000s.
*Rather interesting to see that Ian Henderson is listed as the presenter of both Stateline and the Friday night 7pm news. Obviously NSW wouldn’t have (it almost certainly would’ve been Quentin Dempster on Stateline + Richard Morecroft reading Friday night 7pm News here), but did the ABC in any other states have an arrangement like that during the days Stateline aired at 6pm?
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Hey Dad on TEN just feels odd since it was a Seven show lol
In the late 90s, the News Limited TV liftouts ran a poll to decide what was, in their words, “Aussie TV’s biggest turkey”… I Do, I Do was the winner, just ahead of Let The Blood Run Free.
I wonder what the results would be if a similar poll were to be conducted today?
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Seven used to show an AFL season review each year, before it initially lost the broadcast rights. Since the splitting of AFL TV rights, a proper season review has rarely been shown on TV (I don’t think Nine or Ten ever did one).
Yasmin’s Getting Married?
(sorry for those who had purged it from their mind)
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Today’s TV: 28.9.1970, Perth & South West WA
and the same, 15 years later, 28.9.1985
Source: TV Week
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Let The Blood Run Free doesn’t deserve that label. It was actually a very funny, innovative show. I’d enjoyed the anarchic, slapstick humour in The Young Ones as a teen so this was right up my alley. It was maligned because it was so different and unconventional but some of the critics, like the SMH’s Robin Oliver and Peter Luck, gave it very positive reviews at the time. Matron Conniving-Bitch should rank as one of the great Australian TV characters of all time.
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I thought it was fun but I don’t think it was well appreciated here, while it went on to become hugely popular overseas. I recall at the time the producers considered still continuing production just for sale to Europe but I don’t think that eventuated.
I Do I Do was a dud but probably just ranked highly because it was still recent and fresh in people’s minds.
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Let The Blood Run Free would end with a question that viewers could vote on to determine which way the story line went in the next episode.
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Did Galaxy’s Premier Sports Network Broadcast the NBL Live while Ten had a Delayed Telecast of the same Match?
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Whatever happened to Lisa Treloar?
Additionally, executive producer Ian McFadyen later claimed (in an email to a now-defunct page about the history of Aussie TV game shows… long story) that the show was meant to air in a late-night slot (which was suitable for the show’s humour, but Ten put it at 8pm Mondays, which made the show seem more violent than it actually was (and up against Murphy Brown and Fawlty Towers to boot)
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yes they did.
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Melbourne TV: Monday 30 September 1968
from The Age
ATV0
8.30 test pattern/music
9.00 Magilla Gorilla
9.30 Magic Circle Club
10.00 The Little People
10.30 Roundabout
11.30 Our Miss Brooks
12.00 Stawell Trotting (live)
5.00 The Three Stooges
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 News
6.30 The Flintstones
7.00 Mothers-in-Law
7.30 Showcase '68 (5th quarter-final)
8.30 High Chaparral
9.30 Movie “Pretty Boy Floyd”
11.10 Italian Panorama
11.40 Late News
12.10 King of Diamonds
12.40 sign-off
ABV2
9.10 Schools programming
10.10 Play School
10.30 test pattern/music
10.50 Schools programming
1.00 News
1.05 test pattern/music
1.15 Schools programming
3.20 Weekend Magazine (repeat)
3.45 Flower Pot Men
4.00 Play School
4.30 Adventure Island
5.00 Cartoons: TBA
5.30 Supercar
5.40 Focus on Flowers
5.50 Cisco Kid
6.15 Hey, Landlord
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 In a Good Cause
7.00 News (includes Newsreel)
7.26 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 The Invaders
8.48 Sue Becker
8.58 News in Brief
9.00 Impact
9.40 Late News
9.50 Love Story “Small Hours”
10.35 Sportsreel
10.45 The Likely Lads
11.15 sign-off
HSV7
9.00 Linus the Lionhearted
9.30 Romper Room
10.00 King Leonardo & His Short Subjects
10.25 Charity Corner
10.30 Movie “Lady from Louisiana”
11.56 News Update
12.00 Motel
12.30 Movie “Undertow”
1.45 What’s Cooking?
2.00 Beauty & the Beast
3.00 People in Conflict
3.30 Time for Terry
4.00 Cartoon Carnival
4.30 The Lone Ranger
4.55 Happy Club
5.00 The Munsters
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 The Monkees
6.30 News
7.00 Pick-A-Box
7.30 Combat!
8.30 The Battlers
9.00 Get Smart
9.30 TV Ringside
10.45 Late News
11.00 Motel
12.00 sign-off
GTV9
6.15 test pattern/music
6.30 Popeye
7.00 Today
9.00 77 Sunset Strip
10.00 Nature Walkabout
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Loretta Young
12.00 Days of Our Lives
12.30 Movie “Destination Gobi”
2.00 Tommy Hanlon
2.30 Everybody’s Talking
3.00 Divorce Court
3.30 The Unloved
4.00 Marine Boy
4.30 Superman
5.00 Movie “45 Fathers”
6.00 McHale’s Navy
6.25 Junior News
6.30 News (includes Newsreel)
7.00 Skippy
7.30 Daktari
8.30 Peyton Place
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 Late News
11.15 British Theatre of Fame “A Way of Living”
12.15 Epilogue/sign-off
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No channels (in Perth) took the national breakfast shows at this time?
I believe TVW7 adopted Good Morning Australia late in 1986.
I’m not sure what Early News Report on STW9/GWN actually consisted of. My guess is it was Today on delay but maybe with local inserts/segments for news. I can’t imagine a Perth station having a two hour local news/breakfast show. But that is literally a guess, I don’t have anything to really inform that. And why it’s tagged as a repeat I have no idea.
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