They could’ve had a fifth one - Horse Racing - but the footy was on in the same timeslot.
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Hey Hey aired on Saturday mornings before its switch to primetime until the show’s end in 1999
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Melbourne TV: Tuesday 11 April 1978
from The Age
ATV0
7.00 Early Bird Show
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.30 Make a Wish
9.45 King’s Kitchen
10.00 Movie “That Kind of Woman”
11.30 Couples
12.00 News
12.03 As the World Turns
1.00/1.30 Ryan’s Hope
2.00 Shoulder to Shoulder
3.00 Pot of Gold: International
4.00 Far Out Space Nuts
4.30 Petticoat Junction
5.00/5.30 Family Affair
6.00 News
7.00 Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks
7.30 The Restless Years
8.30 The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (part 1)
10.30 Peter Couchman
11.45 Movie “My Brother’s Keeper”
1.25 sign-off
ABV2
8.00 Sesame Street
9.00 Inside Creation
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.20 Starters
10.50 Inside Creation (repeat)
11.20 Exploration Man
11.40 Lower Primary Science
12.00 Monday Conference (repeat of last night’s programme)
1.00 News
1.10 Horizon-5
1.28 Weather
1.30 Science Magazine
1.50 Guten Tag, Wie Geht’s
2.40 Science
4.00 Play School
4.30 Sesame Street
5.30 Nutty Squirrels
5.40 Kids from 47A
6.05 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
6.30 Doctor Who (part 1 of “Face of Evil”)
6.55 The Growing Things
7.00 News
7.26 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Journey Into India (final)
8.30 Robin’s Nest
8.55 Hazell (also final)
9.45 News
9.55 Perspective
10.45 World of Music
11.30 sign-off
HSV7
9.30 test pattern/music
10.00 Romper Room
10.30 Young Dr. Kildare
11.30 Willesee at Seven (repeat)
12.00 Movie “Private’s Progress”
2.00 Doctor at Large
2.30 Banacek
4.00 Beverly Hillbillies
4.30 Partridge Family
5.00 The Flintstones
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 I Dream of Jeannie
6.30 News
7.00 Willesee at Seven
7.30 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
8.00 Love Thy Neighbour
8.30 Australian Football Championships: Melbourne v. St. Kilda
11.00 The Untouchables
12.00 Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
12.30 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Dinah!
11.00 Another World
11.55 News
12.00 Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
2.55 News
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Search for Tomorrow
4.00 Groovie Goolies
4.30 Daktari
5.30 Family Feud
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Barnaby Jones
8.30 Family
9.30 Mary Tyler Moore
10.30 Big Valley
11.30 Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries
12.00 Movie “An American Dream”
1.45 Movie “Paid in Full”
3.35 Movie “The 300 Year Weekend”
5.00 Dangerman
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 12 April 1970
from The Age
ATV0
10.30 test pattern/music
11.00 Bishop Fulton Sheen
11.30 Building Today
12.00 Happening '70 (highlights)
2.00 VFA 2nd Division Football: Sunshine v. Caulfield
5.00 Movie “Montana Belle”
6.25 News
6.30 Lightning Ridge (documentary)
7.30 Hogan’s Heroes
8.00 Movie “Taras Bulba”
10.20 Dateline '70 (current affairs)
11.20 News
11.50 sign-off
ABV2
10.10 test pattern/music
10.20 Is This Your Career?
10.30 Otis '70
11.00 Divine Service (from Melbourne)
12.00 Football Replay (highlights of 2 VFL matches)
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
2.00 Pearson Island
2.15 Royal Visit (arrival of the Britannia at Moreton Bay, QLD)
3.00 Movie “Ali Baba”
4.30 A Big Country (repeat of Thursday’s episode)
5.00 The Diehard: Legend of Lassiter’s Lost Gold Reef
5.45 The Salvage Gang
6.35 Finders Seekers (musical series from Scottish TV)
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 Magic of Music
8.00 Armchair Theatre “Night of Talavera”
8.52 News
8.55 The Uncommon Man
9.20 The Sermon on the Mount (BBC series; part 1 of 5)
9.45 News
9.55 Who, What, When, Where, Why: Laos, the Not So Secret War (CBS report)
10.25 Struggle for Peace
10.50 sign-off
HSV7
9.15 Romper Room
10.15 TV Tutorial
11.15 Faith for Today
11.45 Sunday Magazine
12.00 World of Sport
3.00 Movie “Revenge of the Conquered”
4.30 Meet the Press (final)
5.00 33 1-3 Revolutions Per Monkee
6.00 News
6.30 Disneyland “The Golden Horseshoe Revue”
7.30 Doctor in the House
8.00 Movie “The Bedford Incident”
9.55 This Week
10.55 News
11.10 Man from UNCLE
12.10 sign-off
GTV9
10.00 test pattern/music
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Nature Walkout
11.30 Something to Sing About
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 VFL Football Replay
2.00 Point of View
2.13 Royal Visit
3.00 Movie “Blondie in Society”
4.30 Australia’s Celebrity Game
5.00 Land of the Giants
6.00 News
6.30 New Faces
7.30 BP Super Show “A Happening in Central Park”
8.30 Movie “Gambit”
10.35 Bailey File (current affairs)
11.05 The Planemakers
12.05 Peter Gunn
12.35 Epilogue/sign-off
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Today’s TV: 12.4.1974 (Good Friday)
Melbourne:
The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal on HSV7 raises $947,532.
Tasmania:
Source: TV Week
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I notice that, in the old days, two of Melbourne’s commercial stations (GTV9 and ATV0) would not commence Good Friday transmission until the afternoon (anywhere between 1pm and 3.30pm).
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Even ABC didn’t come on until midday.
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Melbourne TV: Monday 13 April 1964
from The Age
ABV2
10.30 test pattern/music
11.05 Our Australia: Colonel Light
11.30 Secondary Maths: Some Familiar Sets
12.00 test pattern/music
1.25 Famous Men and Women: Marco Polo
1.50 The Map and the Landscape: Large to Small
2.15 Adventure “Crusaders’ Path”
2.45 Secondary Maths: Some Familiar Sets (repeat)
3.15 test pattern/music
4.45 Kindergarten Playtime
5.00 Roundabout (for kids)
6.00 Space Patrol (puppets)
6.25 The Rag Trade
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.27 Weather
7.30 Maigret
8.20 Denis Gibbons
8.30 The Magic of Music
9.00 Town & Country
9.30 University of the Air
10.00 News
10.10 Andromeda Breakthrough (part 4)
10.55 sign-off
HSV7
11.55 News
12.00 Movie “Down to Earth”
1.30 Video Village
2.00 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Make a Wish
3.00 Movie “East of the River”
4.15 Government Agent v. Phantom Legion
4.30 Adventures of Robin Hood
5.00 Happy Show
6.00 Jungle Jim
6.30 News
7.00 Pick-A-Box
7.30 Jack Benny
8.30 Combat!
9.30 Variety Seven
10.30 Peter Gunn
11.00 News
11.15 sign-off
GTV9
9.30 test pattern
11.30 News
11.33 Highway Patrol
12.00 Danny Thomas
12.30 Movie “Return to Paradise”
2.00 It Could Be You
2.30 Take the Hint
3.00 Keynotes
3.30 Say When
4.00 Sea Hunt
4.30 Cisco Kid
5.00 Tarax Show
6.00 Komedy Korner
6.30 News
7.00 Andy Griffith
7.30 Here’s Dawn
8.00 Mr. Novak
9.00 Coronation Street
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 Kevin Sanders Reports
11.00 New York Confidential
11.30 Epilogue/sign-off
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Melbourne TV: Saturday 14 April 1979
from The Age
ATV0
8.00 All-Electric Non-Stop Cartoon Carnival
10.00 Movie “Bagdad”
11.30 Cisco Kid
12.00 Making It Together
12.30 Travel Advice (premiere)
1.00 Grecian Scene
2.00 Movie “Miracle of Fatima”
4.00 What in the World
4.30 Junior Jury
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 News
6.30 Young Talent Time
7.30 The Mod Squad
8.30 Movie “Story of David” (part 2)
10.30 Movie “Critic’s Choice”
12.25 Movie “Innocents in Paris”
3.00 sign-off
ABV2
11.45 test pattern/music
12.00 English Soccer: highlights of Manchester United v. Tottenham Hotspur (played on 31 March 1979)
1.00 Stawell Easter Gift (live coverage)
4.30 Pot Black (snooker; Fred Davis v. Steve Davis)
5.00 Surfing: 1979 Australian Championships (from Perth)
6.00 News Update, followed by Saturday Night Football (highlights of today’s matches; includes a full quarter of Footscray v. North Melbourne)
7.00 News
7.15 Today’s Sport (includes racing results)
7.26 Weather
7.30 Parkinson in Australia (guests include Kerry Packer and Jack Thompson)
8.30 Four Corners
9.25 News
9.35 Stuart Wagstaff’s World Playhouse “Wings of Songs”
10.50 The Winners (includes Hawthorn v. Collingwood and Footscray v. North Melbourne)
11.50 sign-off
HSV7
7.15 test pattern/music
7.30 Schoolboy Football highlights
9.00 Sound Unlimited
12.00 Movie “Ringo and His Golden Pistol”
2.00 Movie “The Prince of the Pirates”
4.00 This Week Has Seven Days
6.00 News
6.30 Seven’s Big League (VFL highlights of Hawthorn v. Collingwood, Footscray v. North Melbourne and Fitzroy v. South Melbourne)
8.30 Saturday Night Live
11.00 English Soccer: highlights of Liverpool v. Arsenal (played on 7 April 1979)
12.15 sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Hoppity Hooper
7.30 Shazzam
8.00 Hey Hey! It’s Saturday
11.00 Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
11.30 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
12.00 Reg Lindsay’s Country Homestead
1.00 Movie “Every Night at 8”
2.30 Movie “Brother of the Wind”
4.00 It’s Now with the Happy-Go-Round Team
5.00 The Time Tunnel
6.00 News
6.30 Candid Camera
7.30 Hawaii Five-O
8.30 Vega$
9.30 Movie “Country Girl”
11.30 Shannon’s Mob
12.30 Movie “Once More with Feelings”
2.05 Movie “The Impatient Heart”
3.40 Movie “Love Thy Neighbor” (with Jack Benny)
5.00 Gene Autry
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Today’s TV: Friday 14 April 2006, Perth.
Source: THe West Australian.
Channels 7, Nine and TEN showed Easter Programs during the morning. TEN News/SPorts Tonight didn’t go to air on Good Friday.
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Sydney TV: Tuesday 15 April 1969
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
9.10 For Schools
10.40 Play School
10.40 For Schools
1.00 News
1.35 For Schools
3.25 The Play’s the Thing
3.50 Flowerpot Men
4.05 Play School
4.30 Adventure Island
5.00 Magic Roundabout (includes Cartoon Package)
5.15 Stingray
5.40 Focus on Flowers (pond plants)
5.50 Sir Francis Drake
6.15 How to Marry a Millionaire
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 This Week in Britain
7.00 News (includes Newsreel)
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Cilla
8.53 Impact “Plutocrats”
9.40 News
9.50 Softly, Softly
10.40 World of Wooster
11.05 sign-off
ATN7
6.30 News Headlines
6.31 Cartoons
7.00 Sydney Today
9.00 Romper Room
9.30 Popeye
10.00 Time for Terry
10.30/11.00 Leave It to Beaver
11.30 Motel
12.00 Movie “Dark Angel”
1.30 Maggie
2.00 Beauty & the Beast
3.00 People in Conflict
3.30 Andy Griffith
4.00 Fury
4.25 Wotsa-Name Show
4.30 Flipper
5.00 The Three Stooges
5.30 The Monkees
6.00 Beverly Hillbillies
6.30 News
7.00 Get Smart
7.30 Shane
8.30 Movie “All That Heaven Allows”
10.10 Encounter (discussing life after death)
11.10 Late News
11.25 Jonah
11.50 sign-off
TCN9
6.25 Name to Remember
6.30 Nature Walkabout
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Littlest Hobo
10.30 Bachelor Father
11.00 Wendy and Me
11.25 Relaxing with Roma (exercises)
11.30 Everybody’s Talking
12.00 Movie “The Strangers Wore a Gun”
1.30 It Could Be You
2.00 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Coronation Street
3.00 General Hospital
3.30 Hawaiian Eye
4.30 Marine Boy
4.55 Name to Remember
5.00 The Amazing Three
5.30 Addams Family
6.00 I Love Lucy
6.30 News
7.00 Dick Van Dyke
7.30 Star Trek
8.30 Division 4 “The Soldiers”
9.30 Tonight Show with John Laws
10.45 Late News
11.00 Movie “Decision at Sundown”
12.25 Viewpoint
12.30 sign-off
TEN10
6.30 test pattern/music
7.00 Good Morning!
8.30 Kindy
9.00 Magic Circle Club
9.30 Owly’s School
10.02 Swami Sarasvati
10.25 Dialling for Dollars
10.30 Cookery News
11.00 Pete & Gladys
11.25 Dialling for Dollars
11.30 I’ve Got a Secret
12.00 Girl Talk
12.25 Dialling for Dollars
12.30 Marriage Game
1.00 Gwennie & Noel
1.25 Dialling for Dollars
1.30 Movie “Time Gentlemen, Please” (includes Dialling for Dollars at 2.25)
3.00 Paycards
3.27 News
3.30 Astroboy
4.00 Hector Heathcote
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 News
6.30 Paycards
6.32 Gilligan’s Island
7.00 It’s Academic
7.30 Laugh-In
8.30 Felony Squat
9.30 Newsbeat
10.30 Movie “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
12.10 sign-off
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Today’s TV: 17 April 2006, Perth
Source: The west Australian.
Channel 10 Perth televised Stawell Gift, but WIN didn’t show the athletics race.
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Melbourne TV: Sunday 17 April 1977
from The Age
ATV0
9.00 You Say the Word
10.00 Ambassador College
10.30 Robert Schuller
11.30 Mass for You at Home
12.00 Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 VFA: Coburg v. Caulfield (live)
5.00 Bonanza
6.00 News
6.30 Almost Anything Goes
7.30 Bionic Woman
8.30 Movie “Mary, Queen of Scots”
10.50 Movie “Conflict”
12.25 sign-off
ABV2
10.45 test pattern/music
11.00 Divine Service (from Adelaide)
11.50 test pattern/music
12.00 Hammy Hamster’s Adventures on the Riverbank
12.20 Little Big Time
12.45 Sow What?
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.55 The Winners (highlights of South Melbourne v. Richmond, Geelong v. Hawthorn and Footscray v. Fitzroy)
2.55 A Big Country “Coming of Age”
3.25 Movie “Molly and Me”
4.40 Squiggle
4.55 Banana Splits
5.35 Doctor Who “The Genesis of the Daleks” (part 4)
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (includes Weekend Magazine)
7.40 Duchess of Duke Street
8.30 Beyond Reasonable Doubt
9.25 News
9.35 Country Matters (short stories; final)
10.25 Music Makers
11.00 Motor Racing: Sports and Touring Car Events
12.00 sign-off
HSV7
8.30 test pattern/music
9.05 It is Written
9.35 Sunday Magazine
9.50 World of Sport Replay
11.55 World of Sport
3.00 Movie “Press for Time”
5.00 Professor and the Enquiring Minds
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News (and Camara Seven)
6.30 Wonderful World of Disney “King of the Grizzlies” (part 1)
7.30 This is Your Life (hosted by Roger Climpson)
8.30 Movie “Dirty Dingus Magee”
10.15 This Week
11.15 Insight, followed by sign-off
GTV9
6.00 Gene Autry
7.00 Day of Discovery
7.30 Garner Ted Armstrong
8.00 Look, Listen, Laugh and Learn
8.30 Good News
9.00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
10.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.00 Religious Feature
11.30 Untamed World
11.50 Point of View
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Up Jumped the Swagman”
2.30 Movie “Visit to a Small Planet”
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Paper Moon
5.30 Ask the Leyland Brothers
6.00 News (and Sunday Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 World at War
8.30 Movie “Murder on Flight 502”
10.15 Federal File
10.45 Movie “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll”
12.30 Movie “Night Creatures”
1.55 Movie “Death Knocks Twice”
3.20 Movie “The Unsuspected”
5.00 Movie “Five to One”
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