And the same day in Melbourne
Source: TV Week
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impressive guest cast for Cop Shop, including Steve Bisley, Sigrid Thornton and George Spartels. Joan Letch I think was one to regularly pop up in guest roles in the Crawford cop shows in the 1970s but I remember her mostly from Prisoner.
I never really got into The Greatest American Hero, I probably watched the British comedies on ABC 
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Just a few years before George Spartels got the gig he is most known for, a presenter on Play School, which he did for about 14-15 years.
He also did a stint in Neighbours during his Play School years.
I remember finding out about that in my teens and being blown away that George from Play School was in Neighbours for a year.
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Today’s TV: 9.2.1975, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
Debut of Nine’s ill-fated soap The Unisexers. Lasted only three weeks!
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Created by the same team behind Number 96. Sadly the timeslot restricted them from doing what made Number 96 so popular.
Today’s TV: Sunday 9th February 2014, Perth
Source: The West Australian.
Sochi Tonight aired at 3:30pm in Perth (due to time zone difference), while in the Eastern states had the Sochi Tonight at 6pm. A repeat of THe Simpsons would still air at 6pm in Perth, which was a typical evening in Perth.
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Didn’t know Ten aired 24 hours a day coverage of Winter Olympics (Sochi) on ONE in 2014.
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But not a lot on the Main channel
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Back in my home country, The Simpsons premiered on New Zealand screens on the evening of Friday 4 January 1991. It was shown on TVNZ’s Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) at 9pm.
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6pm to 6am was live, and 6am to 6pm was a repeat of events from the 12 hours prior.
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I remember watching that debut episode of the Simpsons on that night in 1991. I seem to recall being introduced to Itchy and Scratchy as well and laughing myself stupid for about 10 minutes solid. Lol. 10 year old kids are easily amused.
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I wonder why they started with Bart the Genius instead of the Christmas episode.
because it was February?
Interesting ratings analysis in that article. I see comments around that Mary Hartman Mary Hartman was this real cutting edge parody of soaps but from the few episodes I’ve seen it just seemed dreary to me but apparently it ran for hundreds of episodes. Maybe I just happened to see ordinary episodes not worth writing about?
And of course, even then, The Sun had to take a stab at the ABC. It wasn’t even a Murdoch paper then, either.
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I was curious when I saw Partridge Family in the year 2020 to see what 2020 looked like. Turns out it was a misprint and the show was actually Partridge Family 2200 AD.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 13 February 2000
from The Age
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.00 Cro
7.25 William’s Wish Wellingtons
7.30 Neverending Story
7.55 Koki
8.00 Legends of Treasure Island
8.25 Fly Tales (final)
8.30 Couch Potato with Jess Keeley
8.35 Bump in the Night
9.05 Secret World of Alex Mack
9.30 Sunday Basketball
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.35 Testament: The Bible in Animation
12.00 Landline
1.00 Message Stick
1.30 Movie “Richard II”
3.40 Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting
4.10 I, Caesar (BBC documentary; part 3 of 6)
5.00 National League Soccer highlights
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Ballykissangel
8.20 News
8.30 David Copperfield (final)
10.00 Karajan: The Beethoven Symphonies
10.40 Compass
11.35 Saul Zaentz
12.30 Movie “Traveller’s Joy”
1.45 Movie “Everybody Dance”
3.00 Open Learning: Out of Empire
3.30 Photography
4.00 Time to Grow
4.30 Against All Odds
5.00 French in Action
5.30 A Sense of Place
Seven
6.00 Jam TV
6.30 Reach for a Rainbow
7.00 Tabaluga
7.30 Time Masters
8.00 Sunday Sunrise (and Face to Face)
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Gladiators (final)
12.00 Golf: Australian Masters (day 4)
6.00 News
6.30 Harry’s Practice
7.00 Popstars
7.30 Dharma & Greg
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
8.30 AFL: Hawthorn v. Essendon
11.00 AFL: Adelaide v. St. Kilda
12.45 Minder
1.45 NBC Today
2.45 NBC Meet the Press
3.45 Shop America
4.45 Telemall Shopping
5.10 Lost in Space
Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia
6.30 National Catholic Television
7.00 Challenger
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Cricket: South Australia v. Queensland (from Adelaide Oval)
1.30 Battle of the Forces
2.00 Cricket: South Australia v. Queensland (cont’d)
5.30 Country House
6.00 News
6.30 Our World “Antony’s Ark: Rescue in the Amazon”
7.29 Keno
7.30 60 Minutes (return)
8.30 Movie “Murder at 1600”
10.40 News
10.45 Athletics: Grand Prix (from Brisbane)
11.45 Movie “1941” (with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi)
2.25 77 Sunset Strip
3.25 Victor Paul Shopping
4.25 Living Single
4.55 Australian Sports Magazine
5.00 Zorro
5.30 Superman
Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Stand TV
7.00 The Big Cheez: Dino Riders and Creepy Crawlers
8.00 Video Hits
11.00 Planet X
11.30 Slam
12.00 Total Sport
12.30 Beach Volleyball: Australian Tour (Men’s Grand Prix Triple Crown; round 3 from Surfers’ Paradise)
1.30 Surfing: ASP World Tour (highlights; from Rio de Janeiro)
2.00 Motor Racing: Australian Super Speedway
3.00 Motor Racing: Shell Championship Series/V8 Supercars (round 1)
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 Pepsi Chart
6.30 The Simpsons
7.00 Pets Behaving Badly
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie “The Fifth Element”
11.00 News
11.30 Sports Tonight
12.00 Wrestling: WWF Superstars
1.00 Mercy Point (final)
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
SBS
6.00 L’Ahbarijiet
6.30 Pangunahing Balita
7.00 Hungarian News
7.30 Visnyk Ukrainy
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 WeatherWatch & Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Esta Semana
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Italian League: Serie A highlights
11.30 On the Ball
12.30 The West (US documentary; part 2)
2.00 Australian Biography “Malcolm Fraser”
2.30 Beach Volleyball: International Challenge
3.00 Water Polo: Men’s National Tournament
3.30 Motor Racing: Dakar Rally highlights
4.00 Asia Sports Show
4.30 Under One Roof (Singapore)
5.00 Speed Week
6.00 Paul Davies: More Big Questions
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 House Gang (comedy-drama)
8.00 ICAM: Indigenous Cultural Affairs Magazine (final)
8.30 Loyalists (BBC documentary; part 1)
9.25 Masterpiece “John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth”
10.25 Movie “Two English Girls” (France; directed by François Truffaut)
12.40 We’re Funny That Way (Canadian documentary)
2.10 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News
Channel 31
6pm Good Evening Melbourne
7.00 David Boske
7.30 Pathways
8.00 The Bike Show
8.30 Asian Community Television
9.30 Musical Planet
10.30 Zontas 100
11.00 Word of Life
11.30 Fish Cam
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