I read something about this in the Sydney Morning Herald Archives. A TV critic mentioned that it was bizarre that Nine were using their extremely expensive satellite linkup to the US for showing The Tonight Show almost immediately after airing in the United States. They said that Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon were making comments on the show about the satellite feed to Australia, saying that even Hawaii didn’t get the show until at least a week later.
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Given that Nine would have been using the link primarily for exchange of news content, sports coverage and interviews, showing The Tonight Show as “fast tracked” (to use a current term that was not even heard of in 1982) was probably just a convenient way to fill-in a few hours of prime time over summer before the regular shows were back for the new year, using a link that they were already paying for 24 hour access.
And Nine were presumably also using the link for live coverage of the Superbowl.
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Today’s TV: 16.1.1983, Melbourne.
Source: TV Scene.
- Channel 7 has a telemovie A Special Place at 8.30pm. I remember watching this at the time. It very much looked like a pilot for a series that never happened… I seem to recall the ending was very open-ended. And looking at the synopsis now, it doesn’t seem to dissimilar to a series that was to come to Seven a few years later.
And, because TV Scene continued to list SBS separately, here is the week of programs there:
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Sydney TV listings: Friday 21 July 2000
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABN2
6:00 Man on the Rim
7:00 Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers
7:25 Pingu
7:30 Teletubbies
8:00 The Wombles
8:10 Kipper
8:25 Miffy
8:30 Sesame Street
9:25 Petals
9:30 Play School
10:00 Jack and the Beanstalk
10:15 Discovering Japan
10:30 Le Club
10:45 Design and Make It
11:00 Shakespeare Shorts
12:00 World at Noon
12:30 Something in the Air
1:00 Foreign Correspondent
2:00 Bowls: Australia vs. Wales
3:00 Tweenies
3:20 Maisy
3:30 Play School
4:00 Franklin
4:20 Small Stories
4:30 Where’s Wally?
4:55 Little Monsters
5:00 Angry Beavers (final)
5:25 The Trap Door
5:30 Rocko’s Modern Life
6:00 Stateline
6:30 Gardening Australia
7:00 ABC News
7:30 The 7.30 News
8:00 Ruby’s American Pie (the world of female pro-wrestling)
8:30 Clocking Off
9:30 Jack of Hearts
10:40 The Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star
11:20 Rage
ATN7
6:00 Sunrise
7:00 All Music Video
8:30 The Book Place
9:00 The Morning Shift
11:00 Denise
12:00 Movie “Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E”
2:00 Ricki Lake “Listen Up! You Dumped Me, But We’re Not Through… I’m Pregnant With Your Baby!”
3:00 Newlyweds
3:30 The Wiggles
4:00 Wipeout
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Get Smart
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 Seven Nightly News (Ann Sanders/Ross Symonds)
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home & Away
7:30 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
8:00 Family Guy
8:30 Movie “She’s The One”
10:30 Seven Nightly News
10:35 AFL: Carlton vs. Essendon (from the MCG)
1:35 NBC Today
3:35 Victor Paul Shopping
4:35 Shop America
5:05 Infobreak
5:30 Punky Brewster
TCN9
6:00 National Nine Early News
7:00 Today (Steve Liebmann/Tracy Grimshaw)
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 Snowy
10:30 Fresh Cooking
11:00 National Nine Morning News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 Movie “The Thief Who Came to Dinner”
4:00 Goodsports
4:30 Two of a Kind
5:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
5:30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6:00 National Nine News (Brian Henderson)
6:30 A Current Affair (Mike Munro)
7:00 Sale of the New Century
7:30 Burke’s Backyard
8:28 Lucky 7
8:30 NRL: Melbourne Storm vs. Canberra Raiders (from Olympic Park)
10:40 Nightline
11:10 Golf: British Open Championship (day 2)
4:30 Late Show with David Letterman
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
TEN10
6:00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6:30 Aerobics Oz Style
7:00 Cheez TV
8:30 In the Box
9:00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11:30 Ten News
12:00 Jerry Springer “I Have A Surprise… I’m Cheating”
1:00 Judge Judy
1:30 Beauty and the Beast
2:30 Oprah Winfrey “Lives of the Famous”
3:30 Max Steel
4:00 Thunderstone
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News
6:00 The Nanny
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Seinfeld
7:30 Seven Days
8:30 Movie “The People vs. Larry Flynt”
11:10 Ten News
11:40 Sports Tonight
12:10 Ground Zero
2:00 Telemall Shopping
2:30 Shop America
3:30 Danoz Shopping
4:00 Roseanne Show (guest Bill Pentland)
5:00 Benny Hinn
5:30 Jesus Television
SBS
6:00 Cantonese News
6:25 Mandarin News
6:55 Telegiornale
7:30 Das Journal
8:00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9:00 Le Journal
9:30 Sevodnia
10:10 Telediario
11:00 Siaran Berita
11:30 The Journal
12:00 Nightly Business Report
12:30 The West: The People (8-part series spanning the four centuries of American history, documenting the way North America’s frontier developed)
1:15 Weatherwatch and Music
3:00 TV Ed
3:30 Going Home
4:00 Insight
5:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
6:30 SBS World News (Mary Kostakidis)
7:00 Toyota World Sport
7:30 Going Home
8:00 Tastes of Britain “Greek Tastes in London”
8:30 About Us “Twins in Black and White” (twins born with different skin colours and what they reveal about race and colour in our society)
9:30 SBS World News Tonight (Indira Naidoo)
10:00 Movie “The Indecent Woman” (The Netherlands)
11:35 Cycling: Tour de France highlights
12:05 The Newsroom (Canada)
12:35 Movie “Malena is the Name of a Tango” (Spain)
2:25 close
5:00 Weatherwatch and Music
5:30 Japanese News
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Thanks for sharing that TV guide and welcome to the forums, but just a few things I’d like to point out…
Presumably a repeat of the episode that aired at 7.30pm the previous night?
I’m pretty sure that the “Nightly” was dropped from the titles of Seven’s 6pm and 10.30pm news bulletins in Early 2000. In July 2000, both bulletins probably would’ve been branded simply as Seven News.
I think you were mean to type “The 7.30 Report” with Kerry O’Brien rather than “The 7.30 News”!
Aside from that, I think these would’ve been the main presenters on most of the news/current affairs programing that day/night - any corrections or filling in of the gaps would be appreciated! 
World At Noon: Tony Eastley
Stateline (NSW): Quentin Dempster
ABC News (7pm, NSW): Richard Morecroft, Mike Bailey
Sunrise: Were Mark Beretta & Georgie Gardner the presenters at that point in time? Or did they not get the role until later in 2000 or Early 2001? I know there’s a clip of the Opener from 6/2/2001 on YouTube with those two as the presenters though.
Seven News (Sydney 6pm): Ann Sanders, Ross Symonds, Kylie Gillies, Adam Digby
Seven News (10.30pm/Late Edition): Chris Bath
National Nine Early News: Sharyn Ghidella
Today: Steve Liebmann, Tracy Grimshaw, Ian Ross, Monte Dwyer, Richard Wilkins
National Nine Morning News: Peter Overton (not 100% sure if he was still doing it in 2000, but I definitely know that he was the first presenter of a Morning News bulletin on Nine from the Late '90s)
National Nine News (Sydney 6pm) Brian Henderson, Ken Sutcliffe, Alan Wilkie
Nightline: Jim Waley
Ten News (11.30am): Tracey Spicer
Ten News First At Five (Sydney): Ron Wilson, Jessica Rowe, Tim Webster, Tim Bailey
Ten Late News: Jessica Rowe (I think she was the Friday fill-in for Sandra Sully during the Early 2000s)
Sports Tonight: Tim Webster
Today’s TV: 17.1.1988, Melbourne and Regional Victoria / South East SA / Riverland
Source: TV Week (Country edition)
- The 2-hour telemovie pilot of Home And Away is shown on Seven and Prime (AMV4)
- Looking at other days in this magazine it does appear to be early signs of Prime starting to align to Seven’s programming but there is still plenty of programming from Nine and Ten networks still in the schedule, such as cricket as seen on this day. It is unclear if Prime is still relaying National Nine News from Melbourne (as it had been in 1987) or whether it had switched over to Seven.
- Marianne Van Dorslar reads the final edition of Seven National News before it becomes Seven Nightly News the next night. Peter Hitchener (and Peter Mitchell on sport) on National Nine News, and Alister Paterson and Sarah Henderson on Eyewitness News. Sarah Henderson is now the federal member for Corangamite.
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Yes, Going Home was encored the next day.
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Canberra TV
Tuesday May 3, 1994
from The Canberra Times
ABC
5:00 Open Learning: Aboriginal Studies
5:30 Open Learning: Management
6:00 Open Learning: Accounting
6:30 Australia Television News
7:00 ABC News First Edition
7:30 Open Learning: Statistics
8:00 Open Learning: Time to Grow
8:30 Sesame Street
9:25 Ferry Boat Fred
9:30 Play School Meets the Orchestra
10:00 For the Juniors
10:20 Here’s How
10:30 Read All About It
10:45 Aussie Kids
11:05 Acme School of Stuff
11:30 Behind the News
12:00 World at Noon
12:30 Lateline
1:00 Four Corners
1:45 Media Watch
2:00 Parliament Question Time: Senate
3:00 Sesame Street
3:55 Thomas the Tank Engine
4:00 Play School
4:30 Johnson and Friends
4:40 Old Bear Stories
4:50 Brum
5:00 Alvin and the Chipmunks
5:25 The Rattles
5:30 Loud
6:00 Northwood
6:25 Roger Ramjet
6:30 TVTV
7:00 ABC News/Weather
7:30 The 7.30 Report
8:00 The Investigators
8:28 ABC News Update
8:30 GP "Sugar and Spice"
9:20 Backchat
9:28 ABC News Update
9:30 Foreign Correspondent
10:30 Lateline
11:05 American College Basketball
12:30 Australia Television News
1:00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
2:00 Movie "Friday the Thirteenth"
3:30 I Love Lucy
4:00 Open Learning
Capital Television
5:30 test pattern
6:00 Sports Tonight
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Bewitched
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 Totally Wild
8:30 Mulligrubs
9:00 Good Morning Australia (Bert Newton)
11:00 General Hospital
12:00 Sally
1:00 Bold and the Beautiful
1:30 Donahue
2:30 Oprah Winfrey
3:30 Live It Up
4:00 Hogan’s Heroes "Hogan, Go Home"
4:30 Totally Wild
5:00 The Simpsons "Bart Gets an F"
5:30 Neighbours
6:00 Capital Eyewitness News
7:00 Roseanne
7:30 Seinfeld "The Smelly Car"
8:00 Seinfeld "The Bubble Boy"
8:30 Melrose Place "Reunion Blues"
9:30 Law and Order "Helpless"
10:35 Ten Eyewitness News
11:05 Sports Tonight
11:35 Coach
12:05 Police Woman "Warning to All Wives"
1:05 close
WIN Television
6:00 ITN World News
6:30 Daybreak
7:00 Today (Steve Liebmann/Elizabeth Hayes)
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 Ernie and Denise
10:30 National Nine Morning News
11:00 What’s Cooking?
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 Midday with Derryn Hinch
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Young and the Restless
3:30 Sale of the Century
4:00 Kidzone
4:30 Wonder World
5:00 Paradise Beach
5:30 Price is Right
6:00 WIN News
6:30 National Nine News (Brian Henderson)
7:00 A Current Affair (Ray Martin)
7:30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8:00 Bob Morrison "Picnic"
8:30 Married… with Children (x2)
9:30 The Commish "The Witness"
10:30 Nightline (Jim Waley)
11:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation "Unification"
12:00 Late Show with David Letterman
1:00 Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Late Movie "Five Finger Exercise"
3:30 Barney Miller "Massage Parlour"
4:00 Body, Mind and Spirit
4:30 Crosstown
5:00 Bill Cosby’s You Bet Your Life
5:30 The Sullivans
Prime Television
6:00 Sons and Daughters
6:30 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
9:00 The Book Place
9:30 Skirts
10:30 NBC News at Sunrise
11:00 11AM
12:00 Midday Movie "Suspicion"
2:00 A Country Practice “Leader of the Pack” (part 2)
3:00 Perfect Strangers
3:30 Family Ties
4:00 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
4:30 Blockbusters
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 Prime Six O’Clock News
6:30 Seven Nightly News (Roger Climpson)
7:00 Home and Away
7:30 Blue Heelers "Theft"
8:27 Oz Lotto
8:30 The Extraordinary
9:30 Sightings
10:30 Denton
11:30 AFL State of Origin: South Australia vs. Victoria
1:30 Today (NBC)
3:30 Haggard
4:00 Here and Now
4:30 Aboriginal Australia
4:35 Bob
5:05 Beyond 2000
SBS
6:30 Worldwatch
6:31 SBS Dateline
7:00 Le Journal
7:45 Cantonese News
8:00 Mandarin News
8:30 Novosti
9:00 Das Journal
9:30 The Journal
10:00 Weatherwatch and Music
11:30 Nightly Business Report
12:00 English at Work
12:30 Movie “Crossing Over” (1982, Tunisia, in English)
2:05 Weatherwatch and Music
2:30 Graduate Education
2:31 News and Feature Writing
3:00 Journalistic Method and Practice
3:30 Journalism, Ethics and Standards
4:00 Journalism and the Law
4:30 The Big Byte
5.00 FYI (Germany)
5:05 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
6:00 People and Places (Canada)
6:30 SBS World News (Mary Kostakidis)
7:00 SBS Dateline
7:30 Goal!
8:00 Treasure Islands (UK)
8:30 The Cutting Edge “A Season Inside God’s Bunker” (UK)
9:30 Movie “Tito and Me” (1992, France, in Serbian)
11:15 Burnt Bridges (Germany, final)
1:15 Movie "The Wedding March"
2:40 close
Re: the 1983 listings - I see Falcon Crest at 7.30 on HSV7. Was this always on Seven - I vaguely remember seeing it listed on Nine somewhere - unless the network differed between markets?
In Melbourne I think it was just a Channel 7 show but it may have varied in other cities
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Sydney TV listings
Thursday, August 13, 1998
from The Sun-Herald
2 ABN ABC
6:00 Open Learning: Against All Odds
6:40 Lifelong Learning: A Sense of Place
7:00 Lifelong Learning: English Have a Go
7:30 Teletubbies
8:00 Budgie the Little Helicopter
8:10 Johnson and Friends
8:20 Oakie Dokie
8:30 Sesame Street
9:25 Petals
9:30 Play School
10:00 For the Juniors
10:15 Searoute
10:20 Here’s the Beat
10:40 Brazil 2000
11:00 Pathways to Australian Science
11:15 Economic Australia
11:30 Paroles D’Echanges
12:00 World at Noon
12:30 Lateline
1:00 Hunters of the Sea Wind
3:00 Sesame Street
3:55 Adventures of Spot
4:00 Play School
4:30 Little Bear
4:55 Oscar and Friends
5:00 The Genie from Down Under
5:25 Little Lulu
5:30 Rocko’s Modern Life
5:55 Freaky Stories
6:00 Heartbreak High
6:30 Executive Stress
7:00 ABC News/Weather (Richard Morecroft)
7:30 The 7.30 Report
8:00 Quantum
8:30 Australian Story “A Singular Woman” (Annabel Walsh single-handedly took over the running of a 67000 acre property near Wentworth, NSW, after her husband was injured in a car accident)
9:00 Ruby Wax Meets… Drew Barrymore/Sandra Bullock
9:30 The Big Picture “The Top Floor: An Adviser’s Tale” (part 3)
10:30 ABC News Late Edition
10:35 Lateline
11:10 Heartbeat
12:05 Australia Television News
12:35 50 Years War
1:35 Movie "Eyewitness"
3:00 Open Learning
7 ATN Seven Network
6:00 Sunrise
7:00 Cartoon Connection: Real Adventures of Jonny Quest/James Bond Jr./Bumpety Boo
8:30 The Book Place
9:00 A Country Practice
10:00 Dateline NBC
11:00 11AM
12:00 Movie "Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs"
2:05 Ricki Lake "Master Hypnotist"
3:00 Hey Dad!
3:30 Power Rangers Turbo
4:00 A*mazing
4:30 Denise
5:00 Hot Streak
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 Seven Nightly News (Ann Sanders/Ross Symonds)
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away
7:30 Stargate SG1
8:28 Powerball
8:30 The Practice
9:30 Witness
10:30 Absolutely Fabulous
11:10 Game On
11:45 Seven Nightly News
12:15 NBC Today
2:15 Telemall
4:05 LAPD: Life on the Beat
4:30 Video Power
5:10 MacGyver
9 TCN Nine Network
6:00 National Nine Early News
7:00 Today (Steve Liebmann/Tracy Grimshaw)
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 A Different World
10:00 Real TV
10:30 National Nine Morning News
11:00 What’s Cooking?
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Young and the Restless
3:30 Can’t Hurry Love
4:00 Crocadoo
4:30 What’s Up Doc?
5:00 The Price is Right
5:30 Catch Phrase
6:00 National Nine News (Brian Henderson)
6:30 A Current Affair (Ray Martin)
7:00 Sale of the Century
7:30 Getaway
8:30 This is Your Life
9:00 RPA
9:30 The Footy Show: AFL
10:45 Nightline (Jim Waley)
11:15 Babylon 5
12:15 The Footy Show: Rugby
1:45 Late Show with David Letterman
2:45 Entertainment Tonight
3:15 All Together Now
3:45 Amazing Games
4:00 Golf: PGA Championship (from Sahalee Country Club in Seattle)
10 TEN Network Ten
6:00 Aerobics Oz Style
6:30 Sports Tonight
7:00 Cheez TV: Action Man/Eek!stravaganza/Biker Mice from Mars
8:30 The Music Shop
9:00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11:30 Ten News
12:00 Sally "My Mom’s In Prison"
1:00 Judge Judy
1:30 FCTV: Family Circle Television
2:30 Oprah Winfrey "Are You Prepared?"
3:30 Breakers
4:00 Totally Wild
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News (Ron Wilson/Jessica Rowe)
6:00 Battle of the Sexes
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Seinfeld "The Invitations"
7:30 Seinfeld "The Puerto Rican Day"
8:00 Newsradio "The Secret of Management"
8:30 Law and Order (two episodes)
10:30 Ten News
11:00 Sports Tonight
11:30 Breakers
12:00 Movie "Blown Away"
2:20 Telemall
3:20 Danoz Shopping
3:50 Aboriginal Australia
4:00 Life in the Word
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 Marilyn Hickey
5:30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6:00 Greek News
7:00 Telegiornale
7:35 Cantonese News
7:55 Mandarin News
8:30 Das Journal
9:00 Le Journal
9:30 Sevodnia
10:15 Telediario
11:00 Indonesian News
11:30 The Journal
12:00 Nightly Business Report
12:30 Movie “Paulina In Between” (1992, Germany)
2:00 Weatherwatch and Music
3:00 TV Ed
3:30 World Sport
4:00 Best of Front Up
4:30 School Torque (student video production)
5:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Overseas Legends “Mahi Mahi Hunter” (a Polynesian fisherman who has perfected the art of harpooning the most sought-after fish in the region)
6:30 SBS World News (Mary Kostakidis)
7:00 World Sport
7:40 Wildfish: South Burnett
8:00 Insight with Vivian Schenker
9:00 SBS World News at Nine
9:30 Movie “Seventh Horse of the Sun” (1993, India)
11:45 Movie “Malpertuis” (1972, Belgium)
1:40 Movie “We Are Not Alone” (1993, Japan)
3:25 close
5:00 Japanese News
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Today’s TV: 21.1.1980, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- The first weekday transmission for ATV10 (simulcast with 0) – hence the first half-hour episode of the new Network Ten soap Arcade.
- Michael Schildberger and Peter Hanrahan still reading Eyewitness News for 10, soon to be replaced by David Johnston and Jana Wendt. Jana who had joined the channel the year before had been reading weekend news bulletins over the summer.
- Seven has a new 6.00pm game show, Celebrity Tattletales, with Ugly Dave Gray. The show didn’t last long but continued in re-runs on Seven on and off for years.
- Not much else to speak of given it is still summer non-ratings so there’s lots of B-grade and repeat filler, although it looks like Cop Shop and Skyways on Seven are both back already.
- It is unclear why ABC is running schools programs on 21 January. In those days school term generally didn’t start again until the first Tuesday in February.
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Love Ivan Hutchinson’s movie reviews. Honest, no nonsense and genuine opinion. I’d have him slightly ahead of John Hinde when it came to films being presented on telly. Never warmed to Bill Collins.
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That Peter Hanrahan got around a bit. I think he worked for NEN9 Tamworth at one stage and also did a stint at TEN10. His last TV gig was at NRTV reading their news, which was rebranded as Ten News before it was canned in early 1995.
I think he also went from ATV10 to start up the news room at SBS in 1980.
Today’s TV: 21.1.1986, Melbourne.
Source: TV Week
- Includes an interview with SBS’ new weekend newsreader, Christina Koutsoukos.
- Given the summer non-ratings it appears that Nine has taken to showing Nightline from the US at 6.00am
- Sketch comedy series Australia You’re Standing In It was on ABC in re-runs. I was probably allowed to watch it by this stage as mum would never let me watch it during its original run a few years earlier. I don’t think it was anywhere near as bad as she used to make out. ABC even gave it a re-run at 6.00pm at one stage, although this may have been edited to some extent.
- The ill-fated The National news experiment on ABC is coming to a close as Summer National, back to the traditional 7.00pm news timeslot. The following week saw the re-launch of ABC News which in Melbourne included the appointment of Mary Delahunty as newsreader.
- Plenty of still familiar names in the news lineups: Mal Walden, Stephen Quartermain, Peter Hitchener, George Donikian, Jennifer Keyte, Bruce McAvaney…
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How did we manage without endless hours of hours old news and endless encores of reality programmes?
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And back then a lot of people never had VCRs so “encores” would have actually been useful then 
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4KQ’s 25 Years in 25 Days this hour is 1980. As well as Arcade flopping, they mentioned a couple of other shows that didn’t last, Texas and The New Fred and Barney Show.
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