Then 1967 launched / re instated a bulletin back.
Its amazing how the Ten Networks has always had a (similar) checkered history throughout its 60s years.
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The 0-10 channels all faced the challenge of starting up in an established market where viewing habits were firmly entrenched. Plus the challenge of the novel 0 frequency in Melbourne and Brisbane. It should be said, however, that in Melbourne, ATV0 eventually managed to rank 2nd place in the ratings between Nine and Seven by the late 1960s, but it was still struggling to make a profit and pay off its previous losses.
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First time I’ve seen Wheel of Fortune scheduled at 6pm…
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Summer non-ratings turn up all sorts of programming quirks 
New Faces, a firm Sunday 6.30 fixture for Nine during the year, is shown here on a Wednesday night.
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Another quirk I remember in summer airings of Wheel Of Fortune was the episodes were very old. In remember in the mid 90’s seeing episodes with a prize of a Holden car that had long been superseded.
ODI back then was only shown live on Sundays and delayed on weekdays
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Melbourne TV: Tuesday 12 December 1967
from The Age
ATV0
8.00 test pattern/music
9.00 Magic Circle Club
10.00 Morning Magazine
11.00 Hollywood and the Stars
12.00 test pattern/music
4.00 Watch Mr. Wizard
5.00 Discovery
5.30 Adventures at Scott Island
6.00 Jim Backus
6.30 News
7.00 Off to the Races
7.30 Movie “The Phantom Stockman”
8.58 News
9.00 New Phil Silvers
9.30 Slattery’s People
10.30 Men in Crisis
11.00 News
11.20 sign-off
ABV2
9.00 test pattern/music
9.10 Schools programming
10.05 Play School
10.30 test pattern/music
10.50 Schools programming
12.55 People
1.25 Schools programming
2.55 Incident at the Mato Grosso
3.25 Under the Morning Star
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Cricket: Victoria v. India (from the MCG)
6.00 Why is it So?
6.15 My Favorite Martian
6.40 Bellbird
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.25 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Occasional Wife
8.28 News in Brief
8.30 Impact
9.20 Not Only… But Also
10.05 News
10.15 Jazz 625
10.40 sign-off
HSV7
11.15 Charity Corner
11.20 Romper Room
11.50 Interlude
11.55 News
12.00 Beauty & the Beast
1.00 Movie “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine”
2.30 Casebook
3.00 People in Conflict
3.30 Guestward Ho
4.00 Richard the Lionheart
4.30 Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
5.00 Mickey Mouse Club
5.55 The Happy Club
6.00 Jungle Jim
6.30 News
7.00 Batman
7.30 Homicide
8.30 The Man Who Never Was
9.00 The Recordbreakers (live from Olympic Park)
10.00 Movie “The Invisible Ray”
11.30 Review (includes Bookshelf, News Headlines, Weather and CTA Feature)
11.50 sign-off
GTV9
9.30 test pattern/music
9.58 Prologue
10.00 Nature Walkabout
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Laurel & Hardy
12.00 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
12.30 Movie “Beautiful Stranger”
2.00 Tommy Hanlon
2.30 Letter Charades
3.00 Divorce Court
3.30 Andy Griffith
4.00 The Samurai
4.30 Movie “Hit the Saddle”
5.30 Dennis the Menace
6.00 Car 54, Where Are You?
6.30 News (and Newsreel)
7.00 Dick Van Dyke
7.30 Star Trek
8.30 Family Affair
9.00 Love on a Rooftop
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News
11.15 No Hiding Place
12.15 Epilogue/sign-off
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 13 December 1992
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 Couch Potato with Grant Piro
10.00 Baseball: Australian League (highlights of Waverley Reds v. Perth Heat)
11.00 Songs of Praise (from Thursford Museum, Norfolk)
12.00 Best of Landline
1.00 UNICEF International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (1.02 One Day in September: World Summit for Children, 1.30 Just Imagine Making Lift Off, 2.00 Grandpa, 2.27 A Dark, Dark Tale, 2.30 The Windmill, 2.54 Patrick, 3.00 That Green Stuff, 3.30 The Stranger, 4.25 The Stonecutter, 4.30 The Nutcracker)
6.00 Golf: 1992 Coolum Classic (final day)
7.00 News
7.30 The House of Eliott (premiere; part 1 of the BBC drama)
8.25 News
8.30 Sunday Stereo Special “Hansel and Gretel” (simulcast on ABC-FM)
10.30 Compass
11.10 Golf: 1992 Coolum Classic highlights
1.10 The Bill (2 episodes)
2.00 sign-off
HSV7
6.00 Frankenstein Junior & the Impossibles
6.30 Agro’s Sunday
7.30 The Outback, My Home
8.30 Saving Hieronymus
9.00 Sportsworld
12.00 Disneyland’s 35th Anniversary Celebration (hosted by Tony Danza)
1.00 Wild Jack
2.00 Movie “Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole”
4.00 Movie “Tut and Tuttle”
6.00 News
6.30 Donald Takes a Holiday
7.30 Golden Girls
8.00 Nurses
8.30 Movie “A Dry White Season”
10.45 Ivan’s 1992 Christmas Movie Guide
12.00 NBC Today
1.00 NBC Meet the Press
2.00 Movie “Miracles”
3.35 Movie “Tennessee’s Partner”
5.10 Full Circle: The Story of Sydney Cove
GTV9
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 CTA Presents: Spirited Australians
7.00 Guess What?
7.30 Look Who’s Talking
8.00 Goodsports
8.30 Sandringham: A Royal Retreat
9.00 Ivory Wars
10.00 Beach Volleyball: Australian Pro-Tour
10.20 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan (one-day international; from Adelaide)
2.00 Sailing: 18-Foot Skiff Racing
2.30 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan (cont’d)
6.30 News
7.00 Our World (part 2 of “The Power and the Glory”)
7.29 Keno
7.30 Ray Martin Presents “Treasure Hunt” (an episode of CBS’ 48 Hours)
8.30 Movie “Iron Eagle 2”
10.30 News
10.35 1992 Miss World (from Sun City, South Africa)
12.35 Cricket: Australia v. Pakistan highlights
1.35 Heartbeat (1988 American drama)
2.35 Police Story
3.35 Top of the Hill (2-hour pilot episode of a short-lived 1989 CBS drama)
5.30 The Sullivans (repeat)
ATV10
6.00 Discovering Jesus
6.30 Mass for You at Home
7.00 Shorn Sheep
7.30 Totally Wild
8.00 Mind Twist
8.30 It Goes
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Movie “Jungle Book”
2.25 Movie “A Hobo’s Christmas”
4.15 Only Fools & Horses
5.00 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
6.00 News
6.30 The Simpsons
7.00 The Wonder Years
7.30/8.00 Roseanne
8.30 Movie “Coal Miner’s Daughter”
11.05 News
11.10 Meet the Press
11.40 Movie “Ghoulies”
1.40 Movie “The 300 Year Weekend”
3.40 Movie “April Morning”
5.10 Assignment Adventure
SBS
10.30 English at Work
11.00 Italian Soccer highlights
12.00 World Soccer
1.00 Anne’s International Kitchen
1.30 Italia News
2.00 Greek News
2.30 Looking for Mozart (German children’s drama)
4.00 The Cutting Edge “Pamyat: Russia’s Blackshirts” (Finnish documentary)
5.00 Pet Shop Boys (interview with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe)
6.00 Positions Vacant (premiere)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 American Supermarket (British documentary; an examination of the “American dream” of the 1940s and 1950s)
7.30 Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One (a tribute to the jazz singer)
8.30 NSL’s Match of the Round highlights
9.30 Luciano Pavarotti in Concert (from the Palatrussardi in Milan)
11.00 Not Mozart “Bring Me the Head of Amadeus” (music drama; part 2 of 6)
11.30 The Movie Show
12.00 Movie “The Kitchen” (Turkey)
1.20 sign-off
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Did anyone here watch the UNICEF shows on ABV2?
9 must have been trying to run through whatever episodes of Outrageous Fortune they had held over from the previous summer as 10 was airing Season 2 by this point on Friday and Sunday Nights.
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Noticing some similarities in the Programmes on DDQ-SDQ, NEN-ECN and NRN-RTN
Maybe it’s because at the time they were networked as GET and basically had a Bicycle chain between the three stations where Toowoomba would air an episode and the next week Tamworth would air that episode and it continues to 11-8 Television after that, since they had the one broadcast tape for the series.
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The week’s programs on GLV10, Gippsland. 1973
Source: TV Week
- It appears that the episodes of Number 96 and Matlock Police are showing in sync with Melbourne, so they’re probably airing via relay rather than off videotape. Number 96 had its 1973 final on the Friday night with a number of big cliff-hangers.
- Division 4 and Homicide are different episodes (though same timeslots) as in Melbourne. Melbourne is showing re-runs of both series.
- The Divison 4 episode Hit Run did not appear in Melbourne until February 1974, so somehow GLV10 is showing episodes two months ahead of Melbourne?
- The Homicide episode, Undercover, is from way back in 1969. It’s either four years old on GLV10 or it’s a re-run that just isn’t indicated as such.
- It is unclear if Temptation and Great Temptation are airing in sync across Melbourne and Gippsland. The daytime Temptation shared the same timeslot in Melbourne and Gippsland and finished for 1973 on the Friday, so they might have been in sync/relay. The prime-time Great Temptation continued into the next week (GLV10 at 5.50pm, HSV7 at 7.00pm).
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One of the few times the US sitcom Grounded For Life aired on FTA, This would have been a re-airing of Season 5 which 7 randomly aired in December 2005 and then it never returned to FTA after this airing. Thankfully the series would be released on DVD a few years after this.
Also, Does anyone know how far behind 9 was with its Coronation Street airings from 2005/06?
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