Classic TV Listings

[TelevisionAU]

@TheHomeOfMusic

many letters to the Age Green Guide

i suppose it gave GG readers something else to complain about rather than the usual pedantry around how ABC newsreaders pronounce words

[TheHomeOfMusic]

yes, lots of those too! As well as lots of letters complaining about too many commercial breaks. Until Fairfax/Nine started tinkering with the Green Guide in recent years the letters page was essential reading every Thursday! The best of the more recent letters were read in a podcast “I Love Green Guide Letters”.

[Squee]

@TheHomeOfMusic

Ten’s treatment was often the subject of many letters to the Age Green Guide.

Foreshadowing the lousy treatment that Nine gave to HBO programming for another decade after Ten picked up Larry Sanders. So many complaints about how late The Sopranos start time was over the years in particular.

[AirJordanFan93]

@Squee

So many complaints about how late The Sopranos start time was over the years in particular.

This was likely due to the content of the show though surely? If it got an earlier time slot it likely would have gotten butchered with edits. Though I recall in 2011 when it was airing on 7mate it used to air at like 1am and those airings were my introduction to the series.

[Squee]

Nope, it was getting bumped from 9:30pm to 10:30pm or later as well as overruns from programming airing prior that caused the bulk of the complaints.

[TheHomeOfMusic]

This is why Australian commercial TV networks do not even bother with US comedy/drama anymore.

[Tane04]

I remember Tony Martin talking about it on Get This.

[AirJordanFan93]

@Tane04

I remember Tony Martin talking about it on Get This .

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[south_97]

Melbourne TV: Sunday 1 December 1991
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Couch Potato with Grant Piro
10.00 Hockey: Men’s Champions Trophy highlights
11.00 Songs of Praise
12.00 Landline
1.00 Sunday Afternoon: Summer Edition
5.55 World AIDS Day Address
6.00 Watching
6.30 Brush Strokes
7.00 News
7.30 The River Kings (final)
8.25 News
8.30 Sunday Stereo Special “Don Giovanni”
11.20 Compass
12.10 Hill Street Blues
1.00 Tales from the Darkside
1.20 sign-off

HSV7
6.00 Terrahawks
6.30 Super Sunday Show
7.30 Wombat
8.00 The Mouse Factory
8.30 Animal Park
9.00 Sportsworld
12.00 Golf: Australian Open (final day)
6.00 News
6.30 Movie “The Journey of Natty Gann”
8.30 Movie “Splash”
10.50 Motor Racing: NASCAR-AUSCAR Christmas Classic (highlights)
12.30 NBC Today on Sunday
2.00 NBC Meet the Press
2.30 Movie “Camorra”
4.10 Unauthorised Biography
5.50 Ivan’s Face to Face

GTV9
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 Mosaic (religion)
7.00 KTV
7.30 Bush Beat
8.00 Business Sunday (final)
9.00 Sunday (final)
10.50 Cricket: Australia v. India (day 3 of the 1st test; from Brisbane)
1.00 Sailing: 18 Foot Skiff Racing (from Townsville)
1.30 Cricket: Australia v. India (cont’d)
6.00 News
6.30 Our World “Islands of Refuge”
7.30 60 Minutes (final; the last episode for 1991 presents highlights of the best stories of the year)
8.30 Movie “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
11.00 News
11.05 Night Court
11.35 Cricket: Australia v. India (highlights)
12.05 Moonlighting
1.05 Movie “Thumb Tripping”
2.55 Movie “Picnic” (starring Rosalind Russell)
5.00 Crosstown
5.30 The Young Doctors (repeat)

ATV10
6.00 Religion
6.30 Mass for You at Home
7.00 Dr. Fad
7.30 Sea Urchins
8.00 The Little Wizards
8.30 Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling!
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Movie “Young Tom Edison”
1.45 Movie “The War of the Worlds”
3.30 Making of ‘The Fisher King’
4.00 The Love Boat
5.00 Mitchell on Sunday
6.00 News
6.30 Sister Kate
7.00 MAS*H
7.30 Murder, She Wrote
8.30 Movie “Bat 21”
10.40 Movie “Mother, Jugs and Speed”
12.40 World Sports
1.10 After Hours
1.40 Movie “Destination Tokyo”
4.15 Movie “Scarlet Angel” (starring Rock Hudson)
5.45 Aboriginal Australia

SBS
10.30 Italian Soccer highlights
11.30 European Football
12.30 World Soccer
1.30 Sports Machine
2.00 Anne’s International Kitchen
2.30 Italia News
3.00 Greek News
3.30 The Cutting Edge “The Shepherd and the Bomb”
4.30 Dateline
5.30 A Day in the Life of a Woman (final)
6.00 Hotline
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Vox Populi
7.30 Her Story “Women in Black” (British documentary)
8.30 Telling Tales “The Sunset Gang” (final)
9.30 The Secret Drawer (France)
10.30 The Movie Show
11.00 Movie “Dark Times” (Germany)
12.45 sign-off

[stmookeyj027]

@south_97

1.00 Sailing: 18 Foot Skiff Racing (from Townsville)

I think this was the race in question…

91/92 - Grand Prix National Circuit, Ep. 3/20

[swans9605]

@TelevisionAU

Posted to the TV Week Appreciation Page on Facebook

Tasmania:

Tas TV splits between North (TNT) and South (TVT) but essentially an identical schedule

I see that it has the news at 6.30 read by Tom Payne across both north and south but I was under the impression that each of TNT and TVT still anchored their own news bulletins, it wasn’t statewide? Is it a typo by TV Week or was it a statewide bulletin?

Really late reply, but definitely a typo. TNT and TVT still had their own news bulletins despite being under the same ownership. Similar to the situations of BTV/GMV and BCV/GLV in Victoria back then except for the composite nature of the Tasmanian bulletins.

That same TV Week also had a typo for Sunday’s guide, with Peter Sharp and Colin McNiff credited as hosts of World Of Sport on both stations, but they were only hosts of the TVT version. The TNT version I believe was hosted by Shane Yates and Peter Gilligan in that particular year.

[Gabe]

Happy December
December 1st 1988 - Melbourne

[TelevisionAU]

Today’s TV: 2.12.1979, Melbourne

Source: TV Week

[south_97]

Melbourne TV: Friday 3 December 1999
from The Age

ABC
6.00 French in Action
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Albert the 5th Musketeer
7.25 Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
7.30 Teletubbies
7.55 Maisy
8.00 Johnson & Friends
8.10 Postman Pat
8.25 Koki
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Stage One (final)
10.15 Rigolecole (final)
10.25 BTN Special (final)
10.40 Scientific Eye (final)
11.00 Inside Out (final)
11.15 Worlds of Faith (final)
11.30 Economic Australia (final)
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Bush Tucker Man
1.00 Stephen Hawking’s Universe
2.00 The Bill
2.50 Consuming Passions
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Pingu
3.30 Play School
4.00 Adventures of Blinky Bill
4.25 Lisa
4.30 Arthur
4.55 Fly Tales
5.00 Catdog
5.25 Wildlife
5.30 Soul Music
6.00 Stateline (final)
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Absolutely Fabulous: The Collection (premiere)
8.30 Plastic Man (starring John Thaw; premiere)
10.10 Silent Witness (final)
11.00 News
11.10 Order in the House
12.10 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 “Anne of the Thousand Days”
3.00 I Dream of Jeannie
3.30 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
4.00 Madison’s Adventures Growing Up Wild
4.30 Mary Tyler Moore
5.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home Improvement
7.30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
8.30 Movie “Diamonds Are Forever”
11.00 News
11.05 Davis Cup final: France v. Australia (singles; day 1)
5.10 Video Power
5.35 Saved by the Bell: The New Class

Nine
6.00 Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Cybill
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 Movie “Clara’s Heart”
4.00 Y?
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Full House
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Drew Carey
7.29 Keno
7.30 Burke’s Backyard (final)
8.30 Taggart “Gingerbread”
11.20 Nightline
11.50 Renegade
12.50 Late Show with David Letterman
1.45 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
2.40 Remington Steele
3.40 Victor Paul Shopping
4.35 Full House
5.00 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5.30 Superman (animated)

Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 X-Men
7.30 Problem Child
8.00 Action Man
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 & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Neighbours (early episodes)
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Happy Days
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30/8.30 7th Heaven (return)
9.30 Movie “She’s Having a Baby”
11.40 News
12.10 Sports Tonight
12.40 Golf: Players Championship highlights (from Brisbane)
1.40 Video Hits
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz
4.00 Beauty & the Beast (CBS)
5.00 Benny Hinn
5.30 JTV: Jesus Television

SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
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 Palestine, Story of a Land: 1977-1991 (final)
1.05 Innocents Lost (British documentary; part 1)
2.00 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 Life Chances
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 Glynn Christian Tastes Royal Thailand (premiere)
8.30 About Us “Guardians of Time” (French documentary)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Everything Must Go” (French comedy-drama)
11.35 Alchemy
12.35 Movie “Little Sister” (Netherlands)
2.10 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News

Channel 31
6pm Romanian Mozaic
7.00 Croatian Television Vukovar
8.00 In Search of
8.30 This Week in Geelong
9.00 It’s Country Today
10.00 Inside Britain
10.30 Cabaret at the Ivy
11.00 The Comic Box Presents “Vintage Champagne”
2.00 Fish Cam

[Sheldon_Betteridge]

@south_97

8.30 Plastic Man (starring John Thaw; premiere)

What is Plastic Man about? Plus why was Taggart on Nine as it always been associated with ABC

[TelevisionAU]

@Sheldon_Betteridge

What is Plastic Man about?

Plastic Man (TV Series 1999– ) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama

[TelevisionAU]

Today’s TV: 3.12.1983, Brisbane

Source: TV Week

[JohnsonTV]

What was the BTQ Spastic Appeal about? How many years did it run for?

[Mechsta]

@JohnsonTV

What was the BTQ Spastic Appeal about? How many years did it run for?

I think that it would have been to raise funds for a group that used to be called “The Spastic Centre”. It’s now called the Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the term “Spastic” is now no longer considered appropriate, even if it is used in the correct context.

[south_97]

Melbourne TV: Saturday 6 December 1997
from The Age

ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Recovery
12.00 Stateline (final)
12.30 Snooker: Clem Jones National Championship
1.00 English Premier League: highlights of Arsenal v. Liverpool
2.00 Baseball: Melbourne Reds v. Brisbane Bandits
3.30 Baseclimb
4.30 Movie “Tawny Pipit”
6.00 Wallace & Gromit “The Wrong Trousers”
6.30 Australian Story “Outback Daughter”
7.00 News
7.30 Pie in the Sky
8.25 News
8.30 The Bill (2 episodes)
9.25 News
9.30 The Double Life of Franz Schubert
10.20 Class Act (final)
11.10 Order in the House
12.10 Rage

Seven
6.00 Cross Country
6.30 Bob in a Bottle (cartoon)
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9.30 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
10.00 Huckleberry Hound
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 California Dreams
11.30 The Mask
12.00 Snowboarding: FIS World Championships
1.00 History of the Winter Olympics
2.00 Movie “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”
4.20 Tom & Jerry
4.30 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
5.00 Sydney 2000: Our Olympic Dreams
6.00 News
6.30 World Around Us “Webs of Intrigue”
7.30 Heartbeat (includes Tattslotto at 8.35)
8.40 Movie “Witness”
11.00 Movie “Heroes” (starring Henry Winkler)
1.10/1.40 My Three Sons
2.10 Movie “The Day of the Triffids”
3.55 Movie “Leona Helmsley: Queen of Mean”
5.35 Funniest People

Nine
6.00 Gillette World Sport Special
6.30 Dinky Di’s (return)
7.00 Goodsports
7.30 Wonder World!
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 What’s Up Doc?
9.30 Superman (animated)
10.00 Movie “The Corsican Brothers”
11.00 Ship to Shore
11.30 Wishbone
12.00 k.d. lang in Concert
1.00 The Boys Are Back (premiere)
1.30 Outer Bounds
1.50 Fish
2.20 Cricket: New Zealand v. South Africa (one-day; from Adelaide)
6.00 News
6.30 Cricket: New Zealand v. South Africa (cont’d)
10.14 Keno
10.15 Movie “Dead to the World” (Australian film)
12.05 Touched by an Angel
1.05 Late Show with David Letterman
2.05 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
3.05 Hunter
4.05 Barney Miller
4.35 Carson’s Comedy Classics
5.00 Kenneth Copeland

Ten
6.00 Barney & Friends
6.30 Fantomcat
7.00 Owl TV
7.30 Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 NBA Action
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Golf: Players’ Championship (from Brisbane)
5.00 News
5.30 Greg Norman’s Classic Fishing Adventures (premiere)
6.00 Out of This World (premiere)
6.30/7.00 Goosebumps
7.30 Xena: Warrior Princess
8.30 National Geographic “Wildlife Warriors” (introduced by Sandra Sully)
9.40 Moloney
10.40 News
11.10 Sports Tonight
12.10 NBA’s Game of the Week
1.10 Motor Racing: Drag Racing (round 5)
1.40 A Year to Remember
2.05 Telemall
4.00 Hillsongs Australia Presents: Life is for Living
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Robert Schuller

SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 WeatherWatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale Italiano
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 WeatherWatch & Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Movie “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (France)
2.00 Abbado & Pavarotti at Ferrara
3.00 Lucumi, the Rumbero of Cuba (French documentary)
3.30 Howard Hodgkin
4.30 World Soccer
5.30 European Champions League highlights
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Rick Stein’s Taste of the Sea (UK)
7.30 Dateline (final)
8.30 Aeon Flux
9.00 Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (New Zealand)
9.30 Movie “The Pitiless Three” (Italian western)
11.05 Eat Carpet
12.05 Movie “Cold Cuts” (France)
1.40 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music

Channel 31
2.30pm Vietnamese Program
3.00 In Good Company
3.30 Vivace
4.00 Melbourne Musos
4.30 Rose Farm Visit
5.00 Multicultural Arts
5.10 History of Australian Chinese
5.30 Turkish Music Box
6.00 Mansfield’s Melbourne
6.30 Harness Racing
11.15 sign-off