Sydney TV from Friday, December 30, 2005
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6:00 Jeopardy
6:25 Batfink
6:30 Untalkative Bunny
6:35 Magic School Bus
7:00 Basil Brush
7:25 Potatoes and Dragons
7:30 King Arthur’s Disasters
8:00 Little Robots
8:10 Franny’s Feet
8:25 Rubbadubbers
8:35 Bambaloo
9:00 Boohbah
9:20 Max and Ruby
9:25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9:30 Play School
10:00 Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!
10:10 The Wiggles Show
10:30 Backyard Science
10:40 Creature Features
11:10 Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers
11:35 The Saddle Club
12:00 Midday Report
12:30 Forever Summer with Nigella
1:00 Classic Parkinson
2:00 Fat Cow Motel
2:30 My Hero
3:00 Bananas in Pyjamas "Birthday Friday"
3:05 Poko
3:30 Play School
3:55 Bob the Builder
4:10 Madeline
4:30 The Wild Thornberrys
4:55 Roller Coaster
5:00 Planet Sketch
5:10 Radio Free Roscoe
5:35 Daria
6:00 Wallace and Gromit “A Close Shave”/"The Wrong Trousers"
7:00 ABC News
7:30 The 7:30 Report
8:00 Return of the Chef
8:30 The Cry "Episode 3"
10:10 Coupling "Nightlines"
10:40 ABC News Late Edition
10:50 Any Time Now
11:50 Ali G in Da USAiii
12:20 Rage
7 ATN Seven Network
6:00 Sunrise
9:00 The Fairies
9:30 Tabaluga
10:00 Seaside Hotel
10:30 Seven Morning News
11:00 Cycling Mongolia
12:00 Movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
3:00 Home Improvement
3:30 Reba
4:00 Backyard Science
4:30 Seven News at 4:30
5:00 MAS*H
5:30 Deal or No Deal
6:00 Seven News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Medical Emergency
7:30 Better Homes and Gardens: Summer
8:30 Movie "Hercules"
11:30 Movie "Undertow"
1:20 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
2:00 Guthy-Renker Australia
3:00 Brand Developers
3:30 Icon International
4:00 NBC Today
9 TCN Nine Network
6:00 Today
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 Hot Source
10:00 Cricket: Australia vs. South Africa (2nd test from Melbourne Cricket Ground)
12:30 The Cricket Show
1:00 Cricket: Australia vs. South Africa (continued)
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 Joey
7:00 The King of Queens
7:30 Super Nanny USA
8:30 Movie "Virus"
10:40 Nightline
11:10 Movie "Trading Places"
1:30 Late Show with David Letterman
2:30 Mad TV
3:30 Ren and Stimpy
4:00 Creflo A. Dollar
4:30 Good Morning America
10 TEN Network Ten
6:00 Bright Ideas
7:00 Toasted TV
8:30 In the Box
9:00 Good Morning Australia: Summer Series
11:30 Ten News
12:00 Murder, She Wrote
1:00 Ready Steady Cook
2:00 Video Hits Presents
3:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
3:30 Judge Judy
4:00 Totally Wild
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News
6:00 The Simpsons "Homer at the Bat"
6:30 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
7:00 Oliver’s Twist
7:30 The Simpsons "The Sweetest Apu"
8:00 Futurama
8:30 Movie "Go"
10:35 Ten News
11:05 Sports Tonight
11:35 The Big Night In with John Foreman "Episode #1.5"
12:35 Robbie Williams: The Road to Intensive Care
1:35 Video Hits Up-Late
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Doc
5:00 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn
5:30 Christian City TV
28 SBS
6:00 Cantonese News
6:20 Mandarin News
6:50 Weatherwatch and Music
7:25 Italian News
8:00 Das Journal
8:30 Spanish News
9:20 Le Journal
9:55 Russian News
10:30 Greek News
11:30 Arabic News
12:05 Indonesian News
12:30 Nightly Business Report
1:00 Vespasian: The Man Who Saved Rome
2:30 Love Bites
3:00 A Fork in Asia
3:30 The Movie Show
4:00 Toyota World Sport (repeat)
4:30 The Journal
5:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Global Village "Moulay Ismail’s Royal Stables"
6:30 SBS World News Australia
7:00 Toyota World Sport
7:30 Tribe “Kombai” (documentary series that follows the travels of British expedition leader Bruce Parry; UK, part 3 of 6)
8:30 Unit One (Denmark; English subtitles)
9:35 SBS World News Australia
10:00 Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (Belgium; English subtitles; part 5 of 10)
10:50 Movie “666: In Bed with the Devil” (2002, Germany; English subtitles)
12:15 Movie “Our Tropical Island” (1999, Italy; English subtitles)
1:50 close
5:00 Weatherwatch and Music
5:25 Japanese News
I don’t understand why 7 and 9 introduced afternoon news bulletins. Was that necessary?
Sydney TV from Sunday, February 3, 2002
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6:00 Rage
7:30 Little Bear
7:55 Pingu
8:00 Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers
8:25 Little Monsters
8:30 Angela Anaconda
8:55 Wildlife
9:00 Stickin’ Around
9:25 El Nombre
9:30 Queensland Symphony Orchestra: A Right Royal Performance
10:25 Bach Organ Works
11:00 Songs of Praise "Bradford"
11:35 It Ain’t Necessarily So "Remember Zion"
12:00 Best of Landline
1:00 Dead Easy Gardening
1:30 Message Stick: Baamba Albert
2:00 Vanity Fair
3:00 Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs "Notation"
3:50 Words with James Griffin: Simon Winchester
4:00 The Nude: The Classical
4:30 Why Sing?: Opera Explored
5:00 The Real Albert Goering
6:00 Journeys to the Ends of the Earth "The Last Trail of Butch and Sundance"
6:55 Consuming Passions
7:00 ABC News/Weather
7:30 Island Life "Torres Strait Island"
8:25 ABC News Update
8:30 Murder Rooms II "The Patient’s Eyes"
10:00 Compass "Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness-Seneca on Anger"
10:30 This is Modern Art "I’m a Genius"
11:20 St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle
12:50 Movie "Hunted"
2:15 Movie "Seven Thunders"
4:00 Gogwana
4:30 Australian Studies: Images of Australia
5:00 Let’s Learn Japanese
5:30 French in Action
7 ATN Seven Network
6:00 One
6:30 Too Much to Bear
7:00 Wipeout
7:30 Search for Treasure Island
8:00 Secrets of the River
9:00 Boy Meets World
9:30 Flipper and Lopaka
10:00 Flipper: The New Adventures
11:00 Australian Soccer (highlights)
12:00 Celebrity "Rex Harrison: The Man Who Would Be King"
1:00 Movie "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"
3:15 Movie "G.I. Blues"
5:30 Home Improvement
6:00 Seven News
6:30 Harry’s Practice
7:00 Ground Force
7:30 2000 Acres of Sky
8:40 Movie "Crimson Tide"
11:10 Movie "No Way Out"
1:20 NBC Today
2:20 NBC Meet the Press
3:20 Victor Paul
4:15 Telemall Shopping
5:10 USA High
5:35 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
9 TCN Nine Network
6:00 Turn 'Round Australia
6:30 National Catholic Television "Undercurrents: Trafficking of Women and Children"
7:00 Challenger
7:30 Y?
8:00 Movie "Joseph and the Coat of Many Colours"
9:00 Journey Into the Amazonia "Waterworlds"
10:00 Heartland
11:00 Movie "The Bridal Path"
1:00 Yachting: Super Skiff Series
1:20 Cricket: Australia vs. South Africa (one-day tournament from Perth)
5:00 National Nine News (Jim Waley)
5:30 Cricket: Australia vs. South Africa (continued)
9:15 Movie "Drop Zone"
11:20 National Nine Newsbreak
11:25 Making Of Rabbit-Proof Fence
12:30 Movie "Dangerous Liaisons"
2:45 Movie "Avalanche"
4:30 Adventures in Rainbow Country
5:00 Keynotes
5:30 Whose Line is it Anyway?
10 TEN Network Ten
6:00 Mass for You At Home
6:30 Hillsong Australia Life is for Living
7:00 The Silver Brumby
7:30 Thunderstone
8:00 Totally Wild
8:30 Video Hits
11:00 Chifli Factor (Tim Bailey)
11:30 Fastbreak
12:00 Golf: Heineken Classic Championship (day 4, from Melbourne)
5:00 Ten News
5:30 Sports Tonight
6:00 Personal Best
6:30 The Crocodile Hunter “Steve’s Story” (interviews with Steve’s parents and wife, while Terri highlights some of the most spectacular events that have helped shape him into “The Crocodile Hunter”)
7:30 Everybody Loves Raymond
8:30 Movie "Dante’s Peak"
10:40 Ten News
11:10 Sports Tonight
11:40 Movie "Don’t Talk to Strangers"
1:20 Rude Awakening
1:55 Video Hits
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Life in the Word
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 James Robison
5:30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6:00 L’Ahbarijiet
6:30 Weatherwatch
7:00 Hungarian News
7:30 Visnyk Ukrainy
8:00 Weatherwatch
8:55 Kalejdoskop
9:30 Esta Semana
10:00 Telegiornale
10:30 Soccer: Italian Soccer League-Serie A
11:30 On the Ball
12:30 Ludwig’s Cook (pseudo-documentary)
2:00 Gridiron: NFL (game day three, final playoff rounds)
2:30 World Football
3:00 Soccer: European Champions League
4:00 Soccer: Manchester United vs. Sunderland (repeat)
6:00 Sounds of the Seventies "Shut Up, Listen and Dance"
6:30 SBS World News (Lee Lin Chin)
7:00 World Sport
7:30 Secrets of the Dead "The Syphilis Enigma"
8:30 Through Ashes: The Great Challenge “Of Love And Justice” (the ways the church deals with poverty in various locations around the world)
9:15 Masterpiece "Jeff Buckley: Fall in Light"
10:20 Movie “The Thief of Paris” (1967, France)
12:20 Cop Stories: Rio de Janeiro
1:20 close
5:00 Weatherwatch
5:15 Japanese News
5:50 Cantonese News
The commercial networks all but ignoring Australia Day, although ATN7 manages to screen a re-run of the movie Country Town, a movie spin-off from the ABC series Bellbird, and the 1976 movie The Alternative.
ABC has a night of mostly Australian fare, although it includes re-runs of Parkinson In Australia and the comedy Tickled Pink. But there is the debut of a new series, Lawson’s Mates.
And ABC has a week of Australian highlights coming up, though mostly re-runs of successful productions from previous years. The telemovie Because He’s My Friend stars US actress Karen Black and led to child actor Warwick Poulsen winning a Logie for Best Performance by a Juvenile.
Sydney TV from Monday, May 30, 2005
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6:00 Eugenie Sandler PI
6:25 Active Kidz
6:35 Tutenstein
7:00 Cyberchase
7:20 Old Tom
7:35 Metalheads
7:45 The Hydronauts
8:00 Save-Ums
8:10 Ebb and Flo
8:15 Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men
8:25 Binka the Cat
8:30 Sesame Street
9:00 Bob the Builder
9:10 Elmo’s World
9:25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9:30 Play School
10:00 More Than Words
10:15 Henning’s Haus
10:30 Extra German
10:55 Tate Modern
11:00 Landline
12:00 Midday Report
12:30 Something in the Air
1:00 Pilot Guides
1:50 Mosaic: Eyes on the World
2:00 Parliament Question Time
3:00 Bananas in Pyjamas
3:05 Fimbles
3:25 Thomas the Tank Engine
3:30 Play School
4:00 Arthur
4:25 Active Kidz
4:30 Creature Features
4:55 Roller Coaster
5:00 Atomic Betty
5:25 Corneil and Bernie
5:35 Girls in Love
6:00 Doctor Who "City of Death"
6:30 Talking Heads
7:00 ABC News
7:30 The 7:30 Report
8:00 Australian Story
8:30 Four Corners
9:15 Media Watch
9:30 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton
10:35 Lateline
11:10 Wildside
12:00 Night and Day
12:25 Coupling
12:55 Parliament Question Time
1:55 Movie "Countess Dracula"
3:25 Bowls
4:30 Movie “Carry On Girls”
7 ATN Seven Network
6:00 Sunrise
9:00 Bambaloo
9:30 Passions
10:30 Seven Morning News
11:00 The Benefactor
12:00 Movie "When the Cradle Falls"
2:00 Blue Heelers
3:00 Medical Emergency
3:30 Who Dares Wins
4:00 Go Go Stop
4:30 Seven News at 4:30
5:00 MAS*H
5:30 Deal or No Deal
6:00 Seven News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away
7:30 The Great Outdoors
8:40 Desperate Housewives
9:40/10:35 Crossing Jordan
11:30 Meet My Folks
1:00 Ally McBeal
2:00 Guthy-Renker Australia
3:00 Time Life
3:30 USA High
4:00 NBC Today
9 TCN Nine Network
6:00 National Nine Early News
7:00 Today
9:00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
11:00 National Nine Morning News
11:30 Fresh with the Australian Women’s Weekly
12:00 Dr. Phil
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Young and the Restless
3:00 Entertainment Tonight
3:30 Hi-5
4:00 Hot Source
4:30 National Nine News-Afternoon Edition
5:00 The Price is Right
5:30 Frasier
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 A Current Affair
7:00 Temptation
7:30 Supernanny USA
8:30 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
9:35 Cold Case
10:35 The Apprentice
11:30 Nightline
12:00 The Agency
1:00 Cold Squad
2:00 Wanda At Large
2:30 Like Family
3:00 Guthy-Renker Australia
4:00 Justice League
4:30 Good Morning America
10 TEN Network Ten
6:00 Totally Wild
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 The Nanny
12:30 Seinfeld
1:00 Ready Steady Cook
2:00 Oprah Winfrey
3:00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
3:30 Judge Judy
4:00 Totally Wild
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News
6:00 The Simpsons
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Big Brother
7:30 Big Brother-Live Nominations
8:40 Law and Order
9:40 Big Brother Uncut
10:40 Ten News
11:10 Sports Tonight
11:40 Big Brother Up-Late
1:40 Video Hits Up-Late
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 Life Today with James Robison
5:30 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6:00 Weatherwatch and Music
6:20 Mandarin News
6:50 Weatherwatch and Music
7:25 Italian News
8:00 Das Journal
8:30 Spanish News
9:20 Le Journal
9:55 Russian News
10:30 Greek News
11:30 Arabic News
12:05 Indonesian News
12:30 Polish News
1:00 Meet the Ancestors “Slave Island” (a visit to a site in downtown Manhattan where an 18th century burial ground containing the remains of hundreds of African slaves was uncovered during excavations for a new office block; UK)
2:00 This Model Life (UK documentary; part 3 of 3)
3:00 A Fork in the Road “New Zealand” (a visit to the South Island of New Zealand)
3:30 The Champions of Olympia (on the eve of the 2004 Olympiad in Athens, athletes from across Europe relived the games as they were originally held in Olympia during the 4th Century BC; France, in English; part 9 of 10)
4:00 Toyota World Sport
4:30 The Journal
5:00 If Only
5:30 Living Black
6:00 Global Village “Fraser Island” (France; in French and Spanish; English subtitles and narration)
6:30 SBS World News
7:00 Toyota World Sport
7:30 Mythbusters "Quicksand"
8:30 Pizza
9:00 John Safran Versus God
9:30 SBS World News Tonight
10:00 Oz (HBO TV series)
11:00 Movie “A Kind of America” (2002, Hungary; in Hungarian and English with English subtitles)
1:00 Shadow Play (documentary about the death of more than 500,000 Indonesians as President Sukarno was swept from power by President Suharto’s New Order)
1:55 close
5:00 Weatherwatch and Music
5:25 Japanese News
TV0 launches the new soapie Richmond Hill, with a cast including Ross Higgins, Gwen Plumb, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Paula Duncan, Amanda Muggleton, Emily Symons and Dina Panozzo. Despite solid ratings the show got dumped at the end of the year in favour of another new series, E Street.
SBS presents a re-run of drama series Women Of The Sun, the first drama series to be produced by SBS back in 1982.
Richmond Hill was also debuted on NRTV from Northern Rivers (RTN55 on the Gold Coast). Here is the NRTV program listing for the same week, showing programs in QLD time being an hour earlier than NSW. Viewers on the Gold Coast if they so wanted could watch shows like Neighbours at 6.00 instead of waiting for it at 7.00 from TV0.
Sydney TV from Monday, January 28, 2002
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6:00 English Have a Go
6:30 Aboriginal Studies
7:00 Teletubbies
7:25 Maisy
7:30 Bear in the Big Blue House
7:55 Thomas the Tank Engine
8:00 The Animal Shelf
8:10 Bob the Builder
8:20 Magic Mountain
8:30 Sesame Street
9:25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9:30 Play School
10:00 The Face of Russia
11:00 Vladimir Ashkenazy: The Vital Juices Are Russian
12:00 World at Noon (series return)
12:30 Ainsley’s Big Cook Out
1:00 Maisie Raine
2:00 GP
3:00 Tweenies
3:20 Cubeez
3:30 Play School
4:00 Bananas in Pyjamas
4:05 Franklin
4:30 Rugrats
4:55 Lisa
5:00 Horrible Stories
5:25 Wildlife
5:30 Saddle Club
6:00 A Gondola on the Murray
6:30 The Games
7:00 ABC News/Weather
7:30 The 7.30 Report
8:00 Beast
8:30 Dial W for War
9:30 People Like Us "The Police Officer"
10:00 The League of Gentlemen
10:30 Lateline
11:00 Phoenix
11:50 Blood Red Roses
12:40 Zipper: Great Moments in Art and Fashion
12:45 Movie "The Arsenal Stadium Mystery"
2:15 Movie "Bitter Harvest"
3:55 Half Mongrel
4:30 Reading Writing Roadshow
5:00 Growing Awareness "Factors in Plant Production"
5:30 The Global Economy
7 ATN Seven Network
6:00 Seven Early News
6:30 Sunrise
9:00 The Book Place
9:30 Dumb Bunnies
10:00 The Big Arvo
10:30 Seven Morning News (Garry Wilkinson)
11:00 Ricki Lake "Get a Job or Get Out!"
12:00 Movie "The Poseidon Adventure"
2:30 A Dark History "Religion"
3:00 Surf League (round 4, from Coolum)
5:00 Home Improvement
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 Seven News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away
7:30 The Weakest Link
8:30 The Practice (x2)
10:30 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
11:30 Seven News (Natalie Barr)
12:00 Ricki Lake
1:00 NBC Today
3:00 Victor Paul Shopping
5:00 Tom and Jerry
5:10 USA High
5:35 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
9 TCN Nine Network
6:00 National Nine Early News
7:00 Today
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 Goodsports
10:00 Spin City
10:30 Jamie Foxx Show
11:00 National Nine Morning News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 Movie "Everyday’s a Holiday"
2:00 Movie "Gift of Love: The Daniel Huffman Story"
4:00 Y?
4:30 Wings
5:00 Touched by an Angel
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 A Current Affair
7:00 Frasier
7:30 Friends
8:00 Malcolm in the Middle
8:30 Movie "Tin Cup"
11:15 Nightline
11:45 Walker, Texas Ranger
12:45 Viper
1:35 Ananda Lewis
2:15 Movie "Centrespread"
4:00 Market Forces
5:00 20/20
10 TEN Network Ten
6:00 Sports Tonight
6:30 Aerobics Oz Style
7:00 Digimon
7:30 Pókemon
8:00 Dragon Ball 2
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 Young Australian of the Year
1:00 Judge Judy
1:30 Best of Beauty and the Beast
2:30 Oprah Winfrey "Lifestyle Makeovers-Finale Celebration"
3:30 Neighbours
4:00 Totally Wild
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News
6:00 The Simpsons "Homer the Heretic"
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 The Nanny
7:30 Sandra Sully Presents "The Ultimate Guide: Whales"
8:30 Movie "Moonraker"
11:00 Ten News
11:30 Sports Tonight
12:00 Movie "Hear No Evil"
1:50 Video Hits
2:00 Home Shopping
4:00 Life in the Word
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 James Robison
5:30 Benny Hinn
28 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 Itogi
10:10 Telediario
11:00 Siaran Berita
11:30 The Journal
12:00 The Great Trio
12:30 Movie “The Small Town” (1998, Turkey)
1:55 Weatherwatch
3:00 TV Ed
3:30 Tales from a Suitcase: Gerard Havekes (looks at the experiences of post-war immigrants in Australia)
4:00 Faces in Contemporary Greek Song: Nikos Portokaloglou
4:30 World Sport (repeat)
5:00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Global Village
6:30 SBS World News
7:00 World Sport
7:30 Soccer: Manchester United vs. Liverpool (highlights)
8:30 South Park
9:00 Quads!
9:30 SBS World News Tonight
10:00 Movie “Orgazmo” (1997, US)
11:40 Movie “Silvia Prieto” (1998, Argentina)
1:15 close
5:00 Weatherwatch
5:15 Japanese News
5:50 Cantonese News
I note on “National Nine News”, it lists Robert Brough as a presenter.
I assume it’s the same Rob Brough that is now reading Seven Local News in regional Queensland?
If so, never knew he was ever at Nine.
Interesting that since 1988, he shortened his first name, went to Seven to host a national game show then back to news but on a regional network. Some unusual career moves there!
But interesting that the star attraction at the skiing are two Channel 7 personalities. At least TV Times reminds us that they most likely won’t appear on the telecast!
Melbourne TV from Tuesday, May 13, 1997
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6:00 Out of Empire
6:30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7:00 Photography
7:30 Aboriginal Studies
8:00 Growing Awareness
8:30 Sesame Street
9:25 Paddington Bear
9:30 Play School
10:00 Educational programming
12:00 World at Noon
12:30 English Have a Go
1:00 Four Corners
1:45 Media Watch
2:00 Parliament Question Time
3:00 Sesame Street
3:55 Bananas in Pyjamas
4:00 Play School
4:30 Spot
4:35 Noddy
4:45 Jim Henson’s Secret Life of Toys
5:00 Round the Twist
5:25 Superted
5:30 Feral TV
5:35 Rugrats
6:00 Heartbreak High
6:30 Yes, Minister (final)
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Budget 1997 (live from Parliament House)
8:30 Inside Story “Kaboom!” (the history of explosives)
9:30 Foreign Correspondent (a report on East Timor’s resistance to Indonesian rule)
10:25 ABC News Late Edition
10:30 Lateline
11:05 Parkinson: The Interviews (guest Kenneth Williams)
11:45 Australia Television News
12:10 Parliament Question Time: Senate
1:10 Movie "Cottage to Let"
2:40 Wings Over Everest (documentary)
3:30 Open Learning
7 HSV Seven Network
6:00 Sunrise
7:00 Agro’s Cartoon Connection
8:30 The Book Place
9:00 Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 A Country Practice “Caught in the Act” (part 2)
10:30 Seven Morning News
11:00 11AM
12:00 Movie "The Club"
2:00 Ricki Lake "Ricki’s All-American Red, White And Blue Collar Man Contest"
3:00 I Dream of Jeannie
3:30 Tale Spin
4:00 A*mazing
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Concentration
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 Seven Nightly News
6:30 Today Tonight
7:00 Home and Away
7:30 Better Homes and Gardens
8:00 The Great Outdoors (a visit to Disney’s MGM Studios and Tobago)
8:28 Oz Lotto
8:30 Blue Heelers "Grave Matters"
9:30 Witness
10:35 Seven Nightly News
11:05 The Outer Limits
12:00 Thunder in Paradise
1:00 Telemall Shopping
2:00 NBC Today
4:00 Cop Shop
5:05 Dateline NBC
9 GTV Nine Network
6:00 CNN World News
6:30 Daybreak/Business Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Here’s Humphrey
9:30 Alf
10:00 Brooklyn Bridge
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 Married… with Children
4:00 Challenger
4:30 What’s Up Doc?
5:00 Catch Phrase
5:30 The Price is Right
6:00 National Nine News
6:30 A Current Affair
7:00 Sale of the Century
7:29 Keno
7:30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
7:58 Federal Budget Update
8:00 Drew Carey Show
8:30 Real TV
9:30 Good Guys, Bad Guys
10:30 Nightline (budget special)
11:00 Star Trek: Voyager
12:00 Late Show with David Letterman
1:00 Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Anglican TV
1:55 Movie "A Star is Born"
5:05 Mark Walberg “You’re Too Young To Have Sex”
10 ATV Network Ten
6:00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6:30 Aerobics Oz Style
7:00 Cheez TV: Spider-Man/Eek! the Cat/Dennis the Menace
8:30 The Music Shop
9:00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11:30 Ten News
12:00 Sunset Beach
1:00 Yan Can Cook
1:30 Roseanne "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home"
2:00 Oprah Winfrey "Are You Treating Yourself Badly?"
3:00 Monday to Friday
4:00 Totally Wild
4:30 Bold and the Beautiful
5:00 Ten News
6:00 MAS*H "Souvenirs"
6:30 Neighbours
7:00 Mad About You "The Man Who Said Hello"
7:30 Beverly Hills, 90210 "Phantom of CU"
8:30 Melrose Place "Better Homes and Condos"
9:30 Big Sky
10:30 Ten News
11:00 Sports Tonight
11:30 Beavis and Butthead
12:00 Public People, Private Lives
1:00 Manhunter
2:00 Telemall Shopping
4:00 Life in the Word
4:30 Kenneth Copeland
5:00 General Hospital
28 SBS
6:00 Japanese News
6:30 Ta Nea Toy Antenna
7:00 Telegiornale
7:30 Weatherwatch and Music
7:35 Cantonese News
7:55 Mandarin News
8:30 Das Journal
9:00 Le Journal
9:40 Vremya
10:15 Spanish News
11:00 Indonesian News
11:30 The Journal
12:00 Nightly Business Report
12:30 Movie “The Waterman” (1993, Poland)
2:15 Weatherwatch and Music
3:00 TV Ed
3:30 English at Work
4:00 Arafura Games (part 1; athletics, boxing and badminton)
4:30 Great Vegetarian Dishes
5:00 FYI (in Polish)
5:05 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6:00 Cuna de Lobos (Mexico)
6:30 SBS World News
7:00 World Sport/Sportswoman
7:30 Front Up
8:00 Jancis Robinson’s Wine Course (UK)
8:30 The Cutting Edge "Passport to Nowhere"
9:30 Movie “Blind Witness” (1995, Germany)
11:05 Movie “A Charmed Life” (1993, Greece)
12:45 sign-off
Exactly 30 years ago today - Melbourne, 30.01.1988 (from the Age Green Guide Google archives, I put in the channel names at the top of the image because it was unreadable from the archive copy)
American Bandstand’s 33 1/3rd Celebration aired on Seven at 9am, this was followed by a delayed telecast of the Tamworth Golden Guitar Country Music Awards at 12 noon, the first time the Golden Guitars was ever telecast.
Sport dominated the day: On Nine the Bicentennial Test Match between Australia and England continued at the SCG, with a golf tournament (the Palm Meadows Cup) during the lunch break. ABC had highlights of its coverage of the same cricket match in the late evening, this was shown live on ABC regional stations. Ten had horse racing live from Flemington, while ABC had Sports Arena, a sports magazine show hosted by Peter Gee.
We were still in off-ratings mode, which meant lots of repeats: The Saturday Show on ABC, Young Talent Time and Magnum PI on Ten, and Knight Rider on Nine. Seven had new episodes of US sitcoms The Golden Girls and Kate & Allie.
MTV was still going on Channel 9 with Richard Wilkins hosting.
This was one month after the channel swap, SAS adopted the old ADS7 logo while ADS10 just changed to Network Ten’s “X” logo (the previous Ten logo used by ADS for the first month after channel swap and SAS pre-channel swap appears in the listing.
Similarities with Melbourne on that day on commercial stations: Golden Girls and Kate & Allie on Seven, MTV on Nine, and Best of Young Talent Time and Magnum PI on Ten.
The movie “Botany Bay” aired at 10.30pm on ADS10, but was at 8.30pm on ATV10.
Local Adelaide shows included Top 40 Video on SAS7 and KG’s Sports Show on NWS9
Aaaaah Grace Under Fire on Southern Cross, a very under-rated (in Australia) sitcom. In its first run in 1994 it only lasted two or three episodes on Seven before being pulled due to poor ratings. Its replacement was The World’s Funniest TV Commercials with Andrew Daddo which ran for several years. After that Grace Under Fire was used as filler programming on both Prime and Southern Cross Tasmania. It had a great theme song, a cover of the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” performed by Aretha Franklin. In the US it ran for five seasons.
