Classic TV Listings

Melbourne TV: Saturday 24 April 1965
from The Age

ATV0
9.00 test pattern/music
3.00 Documentary “Gliding”
3.25 Cartoons
3.30 Light Time (religion)
4.00 Movie “Over Exposed”
5.10 News
5.15 Grey Ghost
5.45 Goal to Goal (highlights of Carlton v. Geelong and Essendon v. Hawthorn)
6.55 News
7.00 Bill Dana
7.30 Ed Sullivan
8.25 News
8.30 Movie “The Spider and the Fly”
10.10 News
10.15 Ray Taylor
11.30 Stars in Action “On the Nose”
12.00 sign-off

ABV2
10.30 test pattern/music
12.00 Test Cricket
12.30 Movie “Breakfast in Hollywood”
2.00 Hit Parade
2.35 Football Flashback
2.45 UK’s Match of the Day (soccer)
3.15 Time Out for Sport
3.30 VAFA: Old Paradians v. Collegians
4.45 Warwick Farm Motor Racing
5.10 Sporting Round-Up
5.30 Supercar
6.00 Teen Scene
6.35 Charles Chaplin “The Fireman”
7.00 News
7.15 Weather
7.18 Sports Review
7.30 Football Round-Up
8.00 Four Corners
8.50 Movie “Duel in the Jungle”
10.20 A Chance to Live (BBC report)
11.10 sign-off

HSV7
12.30 test pattern/music
1.00 Theatre Royal
2.00 Movie “Naughty Nineties”
3.15 Cartoons
3.30 Hits of the Past
4.00 Movie “Cattle Drive”
5.15 Cartoons
5.30 Fun Fair (children’s show)
6.00 Football Replay (highlights of Carlton v. Geelong and Collingwood v. Richmond)
6.50 News
7.00 Football Inquest
7.30 Perry Mason
8.30 Mavis Bramston
9.30 The Virginian
11.00 Fighting Words
11.45 News
12.10 sign-off

GTV9
7.00 test pattern
7.30 Bugs Bunny
8.00 New Faces
9.00 Comedy Capers
9.30 Turf Guide
10.30 sign-off
12.00 test pattern/music
1.00 Channel 9 Championship Bowling
1.30 Your Hit Parade
2.00 Country & Western Hour
3.00 Bowery Boys “Bowery to Baghdad”
4.00 Original Western Theatre “Riders of Rio Grande”
5.00 Roller Derby
5.30 Sports Review
6.00 League Replay (highlights of Carlton v. Geelong and South Melbourne v. St. Kilda)
7.00 Hennesey
7.30 Sound of Music
8.30 Alfred Hitchcock Hour
9.30 Thriller
10.30 Norman Banks
11.30 News
11.55 Epilogue/sign-off

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Today’s TV: Monday 24 April 2006, Perth

Source: The West Australian.

On the television guide, I noticed that Channel 10 Perth having the AFL at 8PM (which is a 2.5 hour delay), while WIN TV had the AFL game at 10:35pm. I still don’t know why Regional WA had the AFL game on delay (even the match had already been finished).

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I’d forgotten about the $5 note challenge on Temptation! I think you had to match the letter prefix and numbers to the ones they drew that night, and then you won a prize if you had them? I did check my $5 notes but never won anything.

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Today’s TV: 24.4.1988, Brisbane

Source: The Sunday Mail / Scene On TV

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Doesn’t sound like Dennis Commetti or Dwayne Russell

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A Channel 10-produced game

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Todays TV: Friday 25 APril 2008, Perth


Source: THe West AUstralian.

There were two AFL matches on ANZAC Day - Essendon v Collingwood on TEN/WIN, and Fremantle v Geelong Cats on Seven/GWN.

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Today’s TV:

25.4.1963, Melbourne


25.4.1967, Tasmania


25.4.1978, Melbourne


25.4.1995, Melbourne


Source: TV Week / TV Times

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Seven would have the sole rights soon after, and have much less ANZAC programming across the channels than today or 2015

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Melbourne TV: Monday 26 April 1971
from The Age

ATV0
6.30 test pattern/music
7.00 Fredd Bear’s Breakfast A Go Go
9.00 Marvellous Munchkin
9.30 Owly’s School
10.00 Kindy
10.30 Magic Circle Club
10.55 That’s Life
10.57 News
11.00 Swami Sarasvati
11.15 Roy Hampson (includes Secret Storm and Love of Life)
12.30 Movie “Private Hell”
2.00 Movie “Oh Men, Oh Women”
3.27 News
3.30 Game Game Show
4.00 Batfink
4.30 Happening Monday
5.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
6.00 News
6.30 Gilligan’s Island
7.00 Hogan’s Heroes
7.30 The Invaders
8.30 Mission: Impossible
9.30 Paris 7000
10.30 Movie “So Evil, So Young”
11.55 sign-off

ABV2
7.50 test pattern/music
8.00 Sesame Street
8.55 test pattern/music
9.00 Schools programming
10.10 Play School
10.35 test pattern/music
10.50 Schools programming
1.00 News
1.05 test pattern/music
1.15 Schools programming
3.30 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Sesame Street
5.25 Cartoons: TBA
5.40 Cisco Kid
6.05 F-Troop
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 In a Good Cause
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 I Like Music
8.30 News
8.55 Dr. Finlay’s Casebook
9.25 If It’s Lagging We Buy
9.55 News
10.05 Man’s Best Friends
10.45 Dean Martin
11.35 sign-off

HSV7
7.00 Today
9.00 Romper Room
10.00 Movie “Forbidden Alliance”
12.00 I Love Lucy
12.30 Movie “The Price of Fear”
2.00 Temptation
2.30 Beauty & the Beast
3.30 To Rome with Love
4.00 Batman
4.30 Flipper
5.00 The Flying Nun
5.30 Mister Ed
6.00 Beverly Hillbillies
6.30 News
7.00 BP Pick-A-Box
7.30 Flip Wilson
8.30 It Takes a Thief
9.30 TV Ringside
11.00 News
11.05 Movie “She Went to the Races”
12.30 sign-off

GTV9
6.45 test pattern/music
7.00 Super Flying Fun Show
8.30 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Playroom
10.00 The Unloved
10.30 Divorce Court
11.00 Where the Heart Is
11.25 Relaxing with Roma (exercises)
11.30 Peyton Place
12.00 Days of Our Lives
12.25 News
12.30 Movie “The Professionals”
1.45 TV Kitchen
2.00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2.30 General Hospital
3.00 Adventures in Paradise
4.00 Skeeter’s Cartoon Corner
5.00 Bachelor Father
5.30 McHale’s Navy
6.00 Bugs Bunny
6.30 News
7.00 Skippy
7.30 Ironside
8.30 Coronation Street
9.00 Movie “Wake Me When the War is Over”
10.30 M Squad
11.00 News
11.10 Seaway
12.10 Epilogue/sign-off

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Today’s TV: 26 April 2011, Perth

Source: The West Australian.

ON that day, Hawthorn V Geelong and Stawell Gift were shown on Easter Tuesday. The previous day, ANZAC Day coincides with Easter Monday.

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Yep, I followed the series, a lot of it airing IIRC Saturdays around 11.30am. For the last season or two, they ran it out in that weekday timeslot.

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Todays TV: 27 APril 2006, Perth

Source: The West Australian

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ABC we’re still airing movies pre-1960 at graveyard slot

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Today’s TV: 27.4.1985, Melbourne

Source: TV Week

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Today’s TV: 28 Apr 2005, Perth

Source: THe West Australian.

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Today’s TV: 28.4.1987, Melbourne

Source: TV Scene

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Today’s TV: Friday 29 APril 2011, Perth

Source: THe West Australian.

Four FTA networks (ABC, Seven, Nine and TEN) covered the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Ten’s coverage of the Royal Wedding was a bit abysmal

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WIN ran the NRL earlier than Nine by moving that ‘Til Death repeat to 3am.

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Yeah, That looked like it would have been pretty bad.

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