Classic TV Listings

Sydney TV listings: Sunday 21 February 1999
from The Sun-Herald

ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
7.00 Katie & Orbie
7.25 Petals
7.30 Art Attack
7.45 Insektors
8.00 Aquila (final)
8.30 Couch Potato (includes Orson & Olivia)
9.00 Return to Jupiter (final)
9.30 Sunday Basketball
10.30 Gardening Australia
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.30 Testament
12.00 Landline
1.00 Sunday Afternoon with Andrea Stretton (includes Kylian Double Bill, 1.20 Palin on Redpath, 1.50 In Search of the Amber Room, 2.45 Proms 98: Bernstein, Ravel, Gershwin, 4.00 Tangos Among Friends)
5.00 Soccer: National League
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 News
7.30 Ballykissangel
8.25 News
8.30 Vanity Fair
9.30 Zizi Je T’Aime
10.30 Compass
11.00 Womadelaide '99
12.00 Movie “Uncle Silas”
1.40 Movie “Traveller’s Joy”
3.00 Open Learning

Seven
6.00 Reach for a Rainbow
6.30 Something More
7.00 Adventures of the Bush Patrol
7.30 Time Masters
8.00 Sunday Sunrise
9.00 Sportsworld
11.00 Skiing: World Alpine Championships
1.00 Sailing: 49ers-99 Worlds (from Melbourne)
2.00 Movie “Driving Miss Daisy”
4.00 Gladiators
5.00 The Games: Sydney 2000
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 News
6.30 Harry’s Practice
7.00 Kidspeak
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 3rd Rock from the Sun
8.30 Movie “Before and After”
10.45 The Real Chicago Hope
11.45 AFL: Melbourne v. St. Kilda
2.00 NBC Today
3.00 NBC Meet the Press
4.00 Telemall
5.10 Promised Land

Nine
6.00 Turn 'Round Australia (return)
6.30 Catholic TV
7.00 Now You See It
7.30 Small Business Show
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Cricket: NSW v. Queensland
1.30 Movie “Annie”
4.00 Touched by an Angel
5.00 Crocodile Hunter
6.00 News
6.30 Our Century (premiere)
7.00 Our Country (also premiere)
7.30 60 Minutes (return)
8.30 Movie “Donnie Brasco”
11.00 News
11.05 Movie “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
1.25 Movie “Frankenstein Unbound”
3.00 Celebrity Shopping
4.00 Gideon’s Way
5.00 New Adventures of Robin Hood

Ten
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Stand TV
7.00 The Big Cheez
8.30 Video Hits
11.00 Slam! (NBL news)
11.30 Meet the Press
12.00 Golf: Canon Challenge (from Sydney)
5.00 News
5.30 Beyond 2000
6.00 Pop Up Video
6.30 The Nanny
7.00 Maggie
7.30/8.00 The Simpsons
8.30 Movie “Bad Boys”
10.55 News
11.25 Sports Tonight
11.55 Movie “Sleepwalkers”
1.35 A Year to Remember
2.00 Telemall
3.00 Danoz
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn

SBS
6.00 L’Ahbarijiet
6.30 Pangunahing Balita
7.00 Heti Magyar Hirado
7.30 Visnyk Ukrainy
8.00 Arabic News
8.30 WeatherWatch & Music
8.55 Oto Polska
9.30 Esta Semana (Chile)
10.00 Italia News
10.30 Italian Soccer: Serie A highlights
11.30 Beach Volleyball Australia
12.30 Movie “Date on the Danube” (Hungary)
1.40 Miss Universe Comes to Power (French documentary)
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Men’s International Water Polo: Australia v. Canada highlights
4.00 Asia Sports Show
4.30 Speed Week
5.30 Glenroe (Ireland)
6.00 Movie Show
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 Derrick (Germany; final)
8.30 Russia’s War “Blood Upon the Snow: The Goths Ride East” (UK)
9.30 Masterpiece “Modulations: Cinema for the Ear”
10.50 Movie “Lady Caliph” (Italy)
12.30 Poland: Cause for Alarm (Sweden)
1.15 sign-off
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News

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So Nine only showed the Mercantile Mutual Cup in the morning and not the afternoon?

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If it was held in Sydney it might not have allowed the full day coverage there.

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It was held at the SCG. According to the paper, WIN aired afternoon coverage from 2pm until 6pm.

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Semi Final match, Blues won defending 224 minus their test stars who were in the Caribbean (they still had world cup players Shane Lee and Michael Bevan and the recently retired Mark Taylor in their batting lineup), then reduced Qld to 6/54 and they never recovered.

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Today’s TV: 22 FEbruary 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian

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Today’s TV: 24 February 1998
Premiere of All Saints which lasted 493 episodes and 11 years.

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Today’s TV: 25.2.1975, Melbourne

Source: Listener In-TV

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Today’s TV: 28 February 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian

Coronation Street used to be at 5:30 pm but was moved to 4:30pm (due to Bert’s Family Feud).

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6 March 1996
Sourc: SMH

NBN showing a different primetime movie for some reason. Quite common back in those days.

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Today’s TV: Wednesday 7 March 2007, Perth
Source: The West Australian

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Bert’s Family Feud was yet another attempt by Nine to try and take down Deal or No Deal.

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Bert’s Family Feud like Larry Emdur’s 2nd stint on TPIR never rated well and was axed after 2 seasons.

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IIRC, Larry’s stint on Wheel of Fortune also didn’t rate well in 2006?

Though I do remember Seven promoted that and Deal or No Deal as the “Wheel and Deal” hour.

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 7 March 2006, Perth
Source: The West Australian


2006 saw Bert Newton (hosting his game show Bert’s Family Feud (which was the replacement for The Price is Right, where Larry Emdur jumped to the Seven Network). I wonder whether Wheel of Fortune ratings have improved with Larry Emdur hosting the show.

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Didn’t Seven rest WOF when Steve Oemcke was host?

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From memory, not quite - Seven gave the show another chance in the first half of 2006 with Larry Emdur as host, before it ultimately copped the axe at the end of July that year.

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Today’s TV: MOnday 7 March 2005, Perth
Source: The West Australian


Even though Western Australia was the only state observing the Labour Day Public Holiday, Midday US program, Jerry Springer has retained the M-classification.

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Steve Omecke’s Wheel of Fortune in 2004 was also the Wheel and Deal hour with WoF moving to 5pm to make way for DoND. However it didn’t rate well and the show was rested the following year.

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Hence why Seven had 20 episodes left over after WOF ceased production.

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