It was only shown on Fridays… and only broadcast in Sydney / Brisbane and Perth due to the AFL being shown in Melbourne and Adelaide. From memory Jessica Rowe use to present it.
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Some of the numbers were just the TV station or maybe some other local facility, or the newspaper which took calls locally.
For many years the Geelong local number 213333 was just the office of the Geelong Advertiser. I presume they would then tally local donations and send updates to be shown on the country board.
Toll free numbers like 008 (now 1800) didn’t come in until about 1983 which the Good Friday Appeal eventually adopted, making the local donation numbers redundant.
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Probably 1992, the first year of aggregation in Victoria.
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Not sure why they’d have waited that long
Today’s TV Guide: 5 April 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian.
Jerry Springer was replaced by repeats of The Nanny and Seinfeld.
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Yeah, Jerry Springer never came back even when school went back. Quite sneaky from Ten. I doubt it’s because The Nanny and Seinfeld rated so well
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Presumably, the rights came up and they just didn’t feel it was worth renewing them. Plus in 2005 it was kind of the end of the trashier US talk shows like Springer and Riki Lake on FTA here and we were heading into the likes of Ellen, Dr Phil and The View.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 8 April 1973
from The Age
ATV0
8.30 test pattern/music
9.00 Junior Magazine
9.30 Old Time Gospel Hour
10.30 Mass for You at Home
11.00 Building Today
12.00 500K Motor Racing (from 1972)
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 VFA Practice Match: Preston v. Golden Square
5.00 Pink Panther
5.30 News
6.00 Brady Kids
6.30/7.00 Wild Kingdom
7.30/8.00 Adam-12
8.30 Movie “Mister Moses”
10.40 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
11.40 sign-off
ABV2
10.40 test pattern/music
10.50 Is This Your Career?
11.00 Divine Service (from Blackburn)
12.00 Kangaroos (CSIRO documentary)
12.25 Magic Roundabout
12.30 Sow What
12.45 Tuktu
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.55 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
2.20 Movie “Operation Amsterdam”
4.10 The Truth About Houdini
5.00 Laurel & Hardy (cartoons)
5.25 Sir Francis Drake
5.50 Origami
6.00 Wheeling and Stealing
6.30 Anna and the King
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 The 40s in Swingtime
8.00 With Gerald Stone (interviews)
8.30 News
8.35 Public Eye (Thames TV drama)
9.25 Francisco (documentary)
9.55 News
10.05 World of Beachcomber
10.35 sign-off
HSV7
6.45 test pattern/music
7.00 This Week Has Seven Days
9.00 Survival
9.15 It is Written
9.45 Sunday Magazine
10.00 World of Sport Replays
12.00 World of Sport
3.00 Catalina Rallycross (from Katoomba)
4.00 Music for the People (featuring the Australian Symphony Orchestra)
5.00 Untamed World
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News
6.30 Disneyland “Disney on Parade” (highlights)
7.30 Doctor in Charge
8.00 On the Buses
8.30 Movie “55 Days at Peking”
11.20 This Week
12.20 Insight
followed by sign-off
GTV9
8.00 test pattern/music
8.30 Molecules to Man
10.00 Religious Feature
10.30 Sports Show
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Football '72 (highlights of the 1972 VFL season)
1.20 Point of View
1.30 Air Power '73 (live coverage from the RAAF base in Richmond, NSW)
4.00 The Venomous Australians
5.00 Skippy
5.30 Woobinda: Animal Doctor
6.00 News (and Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Cade’s County
8.30 Movie “Gambit”
10.35 News
10.40 Federal File
11.10 Wonderful World of Golf
12.10 Epilogue/sign-off
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Today’s TV: Friday 8 April 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian.
Nine, ABC and SBS had Live coverage of Pope John Funeral. However, Nine Perth cut coverage to 5:30pm for The Price is Right with Larry Emdur. A Current Affair wasn’t shown into Perth then.
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lol, one star for American Pie.
Good to see that Nine Perth got their priorities right that day…! /s
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Bit harsh isn’t it.
The movie critic that The West employed at the time had a hate boner for coming of age films amongst other genres and specific actors… I remember every Adam Sandler film was an automatic one star.
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I think a lot of the Sandler fare that started coming out around this time isn’t too far off that one-star level.
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Today’s TV: Monday 9 APril 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian
Channel 10 Perth showed the Masters Golf through to 7am, while WIN showed the Golf through to 10:15am. WIN WA showed four sports in less than 24 hours - the US Masters Golf, Stawell Gift, AFL (Hawthorn v Melbourne) and the Malaysia Formula 1 GP.
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The TV critic at the Herald Sun in the 2000s was clearly a big fan of Neighbours. It was always in the “top picks” of the day and often got glowing reviews as well.
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In fairness there was a period in the early-00s when Neighbours was really good perhaps the best period during the shows tenure.
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This is the episode of The Mole in Paradise that was repeated on Seven that day.
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Sydney TV: Wednesday 10 April 1968
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
9.10 Maths and You
9.30 Guten Tag
9.50 Secondary Science: Form III
10.10 Play School
10.40 Secondary Science: Form IV
11.20 We Play Recorders
(break)
12.45 English by Television
1.00 Matinee
1.30 This Week in Britain
1.35 Primary Science
2.00 Current Affairs: Pilot
2.15 Maths: Form II
2.35 We Play Recorders
2.55 Science and Life
3.20 Flowerpot Men
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Cartoon Package
4.45 Flicker Special
5.10 Lens on Lilliput
5.20 Doctor Who (part 1 of “The Savages”)
5.45 Hey Presto, It’s Wolf
6.15 Ensign O’Toole
6.40 Bellbird
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 George & the Dragon
8.30 Wednesday Theatre “Shadow on the Wall”
9.00 Elizabeth Schwarzkoff Recital
9.40 Let Me Speak
10.10 News
10.20 Esther Waters
11.05 sign-off
ATN7
11.00 Tiny Time
11.30 Romper Room
12.00 Movie “Naked in the Sun”
1.27 My Song for You
1.30 Casebook
2.00 Beauty & the Beast
3.00 People in Conflict
3.30 My Three Sons
4.00 Flipper
4.25 Wotsa-Name Show
4.30 Superman
5.00 New Lone Ranger (cartoon)
5.30 Bugs Bunny
6.00 Rifleman
6.30 News
7.00 Coles $6,000 Question
7.30 My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?
8.00 Dragnet
8.27 News
8.30 Mavis Bramston
9.30 7 Days
10.15 Naked City
11.15 Profiles in Courage
12.15 sign-off
TCN9
9.00 Holiday Carnival
10.55 Name to Remember
11.00 Emmett Kelly
11.30 Here’s Humphrey
12.00 Movie “Three Hours to Kill”
1.30 Everybody’s Talking
2.00 Coronation Street
2.30 The Unloved (problem teens)
3.00 Tommy Hanlon
3.30 Bachelor Father
4.00 Mickey Mouse Club
4.30 Space Ace
4.55 Name to Remember
5.00 Bomba the Jungle Boy
6.00 It’s About Time
6.25 Walton’s Windfall
6.30 News
7.00 Tommy Hanlon
7.30 BP Super Show Presents “Trini Lopez in Australia”
8.30 Peyton Place
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News
11.00 Armchair Theatre
11.55 Viewpoint/sign-off
TEN10
9.00 test pattern/music
10.00 Wonder Shop
10.30 Morning with Mahony
11.00 Owly’s School
11.30 Magic Circle Club
11.45 Prayer of Ages (religion)
12.00 Girl Talk
12.30 Marriage Game
1.00 Dita
1.30 Movie “Something to Live For”
3.00 Secret Storm
3.25 Hazel
3.55 Mighty Hercules
4.00 Buffalo Bill Junior
4.30 Astroboy
5.00 King Leonardo
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Many Loves of Dobie Gillies
6.30 News
7.00 Bewitched
7.30 The Detectives
8.30 Movie “The Conspirators”
10.30 The Honeymooners
11.00 Laramie
followed by sign-off
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