The NZ versus South Africa match would get Limited Coverage on NWS9 because it was played at the Adelaide Oval.
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Why is Touched By An Angel on at 12:05am? weird move from Nine since it was a family show
just to fill time? Pretty sure it used to get airings on Saturday afternoons in the late-90s as well.
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âOut of This Worldâ was a programme of off-the-wall news items from around the world - everything from surfing dogs and bizarre religious ceremonies to nuns who practise karate and a food-throwing festival. Back in my home country, âOut of This Worldâ was shown on TV3 (now Three) during the first half of 1997 with Jon Bridges and Nathan Rarere (from âIce TVâ) as hosts.
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Channel Tenâs Saturday night probably rating just as highly then as it is now 
While Xena had quite a cult following it was not really a huge rater IIRC
That line up worked pretty well for Ten in the mid 90s. Often kids were looking for content on a Saturday night. I was one of them.
Goosebumps was a great show. Donât think Ten played all the episodes.
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From memory Sliders was on Friday nights at 7.30pm.
Thatâs 7.30pm (local time).
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Sorry, pm
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Todayâs TV: 7.12.1981, Adelaide
Source: TV Radio Extra
Interesting that SAS10 has a five-year-old episode of Matlock Police listed and not noted as a repeat.
Followed by an episode of sketch comedy series Ratbags that was a bomb when it aired in Sydney, and seemingly held off to airing during non-ratings in Adelaide, and never made it to air at all in Melbourne.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 8 December 1968
from The Age
ATV0
9.30 test pattern/music
11.30 Some Talk About Rooms and Gin Mills
12.00 Sunday Sport (live coverage of the Land Hill Climb)
5.00 Wild Kingdom
6.00 News
6.05 Movie âTarzanâs Revengeâ
7.30 He and She
8.00 Movie âRiding Highâ (starring Bing Crosby)
10.00 Youth '68 âEverythingâs Changing, or Maybe It Isnâtâ
11.00 Late News
11.30 sign-off
ABV2
10.10 test pattern/music
10.20 Is This Your Career?
10.30 On the In Side
11.00 Divine Service (from Toowoomba, QLD)
11.45 Tick Tock
12.00 World of Lowell Thomas (final)
12.25 House of Treasures (a guided tour of Sydneyâs Museum of Arts and Sciences)
12.30 English by Television
12.45 Sow What
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.45 Science Report
2.00 Movie âThe Fat Spyâ
3.30 Not Enough
4.00 The Look of Galloway
4.30 Squiggle
4.45 The Ten Again
5.10 Lassie
5.35 Doctor Who (part 1 of âThe Web of Fearâ)
6.00 The Quiz Kids
6.30 Gentle Ben
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 Ed Sullivan
8.15 People (interviews)
8.45 News in Brief
8.47 The Proclaimers (gospel songs; part 1 of 3)
9.17 Softly, Softly
10.05 News
10.15 Cricket: Australia v. West Indies highlights
10.45 sign-off
HSV7
9.55 TV Tutorial
10.45 Faith for Today
11.05 Close Up
11.45 Sunday Magazine
12.00 World of Sport
2.00 World Championship Cricket
3.00 The Virginian
4.30 Carosello
5.00 Brian and the Juniors
5.30 Meet the Press
6.00 News (and Camera Seven)
6.30 Disneyland âPlausible Impossibleâ
7.30 Run, Buddy, Run
8.00 Movie âThe Secret Gardenâ
9.45 This Week
10.30 News
10.45 Movie âThe Man Who Cried Wolfâ
11.55 sign-off
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10.00 test pattern/music
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Nature Walkabout
11.25 Something to Sing About
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Golden Gloves Boxing
1.50 Point of View
2.00 Movie âThe Golden Hawkâ
3.30 Movie âLeave It to Blondieâ
5.00 Bandstand
6.00 News (and Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Dick Van Dyke
8.00 Movie âDanger Withinâ
9.50 Interview
10.50 News
11.20 Mickey Spillane
11.50 Epilogue/sign-off
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This was an intriguing title, although itâs actually Some Talk About Pool Rooms and Gin Mills, not that it made it any less puzzling! So thanks to google and IMDB I found that this was actually an episode of the religious anthology series Insight. I knew that Seven showed this series for years, usually late on a Sunday night, but I was not aware it had previously been shown on Channel 0.
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Melbourne TV: Thursday 9 December 1965
from The Age
ATV0
9.00 test pattern/music
2.30 Documentary Feature
3.00 Owlyâs School
3.30 Romper Room
3.55 The Everybodyâs
4.00 Amos ânâ Andy
4.30 The Lone Ranger
5.00 Magic Circle Club
5.28 News Headlines
5.30 Real McCoys
6.00 The Flintstones
6.30 Petticoat Junction
6.55 News Headlines
7.00 Hazel
7.28 News Headlines
7.30 The Fugitive
8.28 News Headlines
8.30 Movie âGun the Man Downâ
9.58 News Headlines
10.00 Entertaining with Kerr
10.25 News Headlines
10.30 Steve Allen
11.30 sign-off
ABV2
9.40 test pattern/music
9.50 Schools
10.10 test pattern/music
11.05 Schools
11.25 test pattern/music
11.30 Schools
11.50 test pattern/music
12.55 People
1.25/1.50 Schools
2.10 Screenplay âThe Dancing Yearsâ
3.45 test pattern/music
4.45 Kindergarten Playtime
5.00 Partyland
5.30 The Boy Who Stopped Niagara
6.00 The Kingâs Outlaw
6.25 The Larkins
6.55 To Market
7.00 News
7.25 Weather
7.30 My Favorite Martian
8.00 Movie âI Know Where Iâm Goingâ
9.28 News
9.30 Town and Country
10.10 News
10.10 Nature of Things
10.40 Dialogue (religious magazine)
10.55 sign-off
HSV7
11.15 Hereâs Hal
11.22 News
11.30 Beauty & the Beast
12.00 Father Knows Best
12.30 Movie âThe Getawayâ
2.00 Ghost Squad
3.00 Time for Terry
4.00 Video Village
4.30 Happy Show
5.00 Huckleberry Hound
5.30 Rin Tin Tin
6.00 Robin Hood
6.30 News
7.00 The Munsters
7.30 Wackiest Ship in the Army
8.30 Combat!
9.30 Cainâs Hundred
10.30 Shannon
11.00 Late News
11.25 sign-off
GTV9
9.00 test pattern
11.27 News
11.30 Burns & Allen
12.00 Concentration
12.30 Movie âLove in Pawnâ
2.00 It Could Be You
2.30 Take the Hint
3.00 Danny Thomas
3.30 Andy Griffith
4.00 Adventures of Jim Bowie
4.30 Cartoon Carnival
5.30 The Samurai
6.00 Dennis the Menace
6.30 News
7.00 Danny Thomas
7.30 Ben Casey
8.30 Peyton Place
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News
11.00 M Squad
11.30 Epilogue/sign-off
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Interesting ATV0 didnât have full bulletin⌠instead news updates throughout the evening.
Iâm assuming this might have been due to the summer months?
No that was the extent of its news format for most of that year IIRC, just five-minute bulletins scattered through the afternoon/evening. Eventually, sometime during 1966 they re-instated a 15-minute bulletin at 6.45pm, and then a half-hour bulletin at 6.00pm in 1967.
Despite its limited news coverage in 1966 they still trumpeted that people were tuning inâŚ
Source: B&T
EDIT: I am reminded that the half-hour bulletins were re-instated on 11 September 1967
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1HgQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bJMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4143%2C1915487
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Interesting. Did ATV0 originally launch with newsreel/ bulletin in 1964 thorough?
Initially they launched with a 45-minute bulletin (at 6.15pm) which was a step up from the half-hour bulletins offered by its rivals but I can only assume it didnât get rewarded with ratings so they cut the news down in 1965 to the five-minute updates.
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