Not sure but Nine east coast may have been running The Nanny there as well.
WIN News at 9pm followed by ACA is certainly different, due to the cricket. Also risky depending on how long the game really goes. Would an early finish have seen these shown earlier or other filler broadcast to have then run from around 9pm.
Over on Seven, Kylie Gillies and David Campbell hosted the Christmas with the Stars. David Campbell would then move to CHannel 9 a couple of months later.
I noticed that Channel 10 and ONE broadcasted higlights of the Sailing - ISAF Championships in Fremantle. This sailing championships was part of the preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London TMK. Meanwhile on ONE, they showed an NBL match in its graveyard timeslot.
Over on Nine, they broadcasted a Test Match between Australia and New Zealand in Bellerive Oval, HObart. Nine didnât show the 5pm news due to the cricket and instead opted for Hot Property repeats.
Seven were also skipping episodes of Time Force if the Australian Open tennis ran overtime. They were also complaints from parents about the ads for 18+ chat lines in childrenâs programming, lol. Pretty poor all round from Seven.
It cheezed me off that World Series Cricket was not telecast on any country TV stations, living in country Victoria at the time. Cricket was not well liked by these stations. I had to settle for radio coverage from 3UZ Melbourne for WSC matches. When Nine had the official test cricket in 1979, when it and the tennis clashed, BTV6 and GMV6 took the tennis (cricket on late highlights) while BCV8/GLV10 and RVN/AMV took the cricket (tennis on late highlights). By 1981 the country stations had enough of Nineâs monopoly of cricket intruding on the tennis and gave the regional test cricket rights to the ABC (one-dayers remained with the regional stations), which continued until aggregation in Victoria and Northern NSW in 1992.
THe Circle SummerTime Series went to air on Channel 10. This show highlights the stuff that has happened over 2010.
Over on WIN, they had a repeats of Nine News and WIN News over the midnight timeslot.
Standby programs would have got a run on 9 that night, Saffies didnât last much more than 30 overs in the run chase as they got belted so badly Warne didnât even get a bowl.
Melbourne TV: Sunday 16 December 1973
from The Age
ATV0
10.00 test pattern/music
10.30 Walk a Young World (repeat)
11.30 Mass for You at Home
12.00 Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 Movie âTrue to Lifeâ (1943 musical flick)
3.30 Movie âTarzan and the Green Goddessâ
5.00 Brady Kids
5.30 News
6.00 King Kong
6.30 Animal Kingdom (2 episodes)
7.30 Adam-12 (2 episodes)
8.30 Movie âMan on a Tight Ropeâ
10.30 Movie âIâm No Angelâ
12.05 sign-off
ABV2
10.40 test pattern/music
10.50 Is This Your Career?
11.00 Divine Service (from Hobart)
12.00 A Big Country
12.30 Sow What (repeat of the last show for 1973)
12.45 Landline
1.00 Four Corners (repeat of 1973âs final episode, aired the previous night)
1.55 Movie âAladdin and His Lampâ
3.00 Golf: $15,000 Tarax Tournament (live coverage)
5.00 The Farrer Story (the life of English-Australian agronomist and plant breeder William Farrer)
5.55 Why Is it So?
6.00 Vision On (BBC childrenâs show; final)
6.30 You Asked for It
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (includes Weekend Magazine)
7.30 Little Women
7.55 Ted Hamiltonâs New Wave (musical series)
8.25 News
8.30 New Scotland Yard
9.20 Cradle of England (BBC documentary; final)
9.50 A Humanist Asks (discussion program)
10.20 News
10.30 The Forsyte Saga (final)
11.25 sign-off
HSV7
9.00 test pattern/music
9.15 It is Written
9.45 Sunday Magazine
10.00 World of Sport Replay
12.00 World of Sport
2.30 Maverick
3.30 1973 International Dog Show highlights
4.00 Music for the People
5.00 This Week Has Seven Days
5.30 Itâs Academic
6.00 News
6.30 Disneyland â50 Happy Yearsâ
7.30 Des OâConnor
8.30 Movie âA Global Affairâ
10.10 This Week
11.10 Insight
followed by sign-off at 11.40
GTV9
8.00 test pattern/music
8.30 International Summer School of Science
10.00 Religious Feature âBorn for Loveâ
10.30 Sports Show
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Movie âWar Gods of Babylonâ
2.30 Point of View
2.40 Movie âMiracle in the Rainâ
4.30 Curiosity Show
5.30 Skippy
6.00 News (includes Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Sunday Night at the Opera House
8.30 Movie âStrangers When We Meetâ
10.40 News
10.45 Towards the Year 2000
11.15 Wonderful World of Golf (from Italy)
12.15 Epilogue/sign-off
NOTE: Four Corners wrapped up 1973 a bit later than expected; did the ratings calendar finish in November at the time?