Fortunately the annual match at North Sydney Oval went the distance. Blues won thanks to number 9 bat Wayne Holdsworth (who was a 1993 Ashes Tourist but was a duffer with the bat, just that Mike Whitney and Glenn McGrath were worse) smashed 49 not out off 18. Final margin was 59 runs. NSW had everyone bar 3 players play either test or ODI Cricket (Holdsworth, Richard Chee Quee and Brad McNamara were the others, McNamara best remembered for his work late in Channel 9’s cricket run behind the camera, Chee Quee was part of Six and Out), Tasmania had 5 International players (Boon, Ponting, Funky Miller, Michael Di Venuto who played a handful of ODI’s and Shaun Young who was a one test wonder) and an international umpire (Rod Tucker) in their team.
Full replay of Game 1 of the finals, won by the Tigers but best remembered for Wildcat Trevor Torrance running into a legal Robert Sibley screen that he’s probably still recovering from. The 3rd game was shown live the next week from Perth after the Wildcats won Game 2.
For its last year or so it changed to being stripped five nights a week at 7.00. In Melbourne it ended up eventually getting bumped to 5.30pm for its final episodes.
ABC
6.00 English Have a Go
6.30 Marketing
7.00 Mixy (includes Hey Arnold!)
7.25 Pingu
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Fireman Sam
8.10 Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Lands
8.25 Adventures of Spot
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 William’s Wish Wellingtons
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.15 Seahouse
10.25 Here’s the Beat
10.40 Geographical Eye Over Asia
11.00 Ancient Civilisations
11.30 Visions of Democracy
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum (final; repeat)
1.00 Landline (repeat)
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Petals
3.30 Play School
4.00 The Forgotten Toys
4.10 Oakie Doke
4.20 Rocky and the Dodos
4.30 Animal Crackers
4.55 Feral TV
5.00 Aaahh! Real Monsters
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Rugrats
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.25 The Referendum: The Yes Committee
6.30 Mother and Son
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Dog’s Head Bay
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 Arts Show
10.25 News
10.30 Red Dwarf
11.00 Maxwell: The Downfall
12.00 Baseball: World Series (from the US)
3.00 Aboriginal Studies
3.30 Time to Grow
4.00 Reading Writing Roadshow
4.30 Taking Care of Business
5.00 Global Economy
5.30 Study Skills
Seven
6.00 The Big Breakfast
7.30 Rugby Union World Cup highlights
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Denise
11.00 Home and Away (early episodes)
12.00 Movie “Quick”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Adventures of Chuck Finn
4.30 Cosby
5.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Savage Seas “Where the Sea Meets the Shore” (premiere)
8.30 Felicity
9.30 World Cup Comedy (premiere)
10.30 Profiler
11.30 News
12.00 The Sweeney
1.05 NBC Today
3.05 Telemall Shopping
4.00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
5.10 Video Power (repeat)
5.35 The Village
Nine
6.00 Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Blue’s Clues
10.00 Martin Short
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 (repeat)
3.30 Step by Step
4.00 Pig’s Breakfast (final)
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30/8.00 Friends
8.30 Australia’s Most Wanted
9.30 Sex and the City
10.00 Spin City
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Brimstone
12.00 WCW Monday Nitro
1.00 Movie “Brutal Glory”
2.50 Victor Paul
3.50 Lawman
4.20 Living Single
4.50 High Adventure (sports)
5.00 48 Hours
Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 Jumanji
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Extreme Ghostbusters
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 News
12.00 Highway to Heaven
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Guinness World Records: Primetime
8.30 Law & Order
9.30 Good News Week
10.30 News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 Motorcycle Racing: Argentinian 500cc Grand Prix (from Buenos Aires)
2.00 CART World Series: IndyCar (from California)
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
SBS
6.00 WeatherWatch & Music
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Itogi
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie “Christina” (Greece)
1.55 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
4.30 ICAM
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
5.50 Hotline
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 English Premier League highlights
8.30/9.00 South Park
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Twenty Three” (Germany)
11.40 Alchemy
12.40 Movie “Pretty Village, Pretty Flame” (Serbia)
2.50 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
6pm Hungarian Magazine
6.30 Vietnamese Program
7.00 Serbian Television
8.00 Access News
8.30 Melbourne Musos
9.00 Squeal
10.00 Queerzone
10.30 Bitchin Kitchen
10.45 Nine Forty Five
11.00 Fish Cam
Probably a good thing it was first shown that late (there was a repeat I think the next Saturday Afternoon), given the race even though it was a championship decider (Juan Pablo Montoya won the championship on a countback from Dario Franchitti, Adrian Fernandez won the race) the 500 mile race was marred by the death of popular Canadian driver Greg Moore 13 laps into the race.
Ironic thing about this is that the Atlanta Braves who lost this series in a sweep to the Yankees are one game away from winning this year’s World Series which is the first time they’ve appeared since.
