Classic TV Listings

I know the actual show, I was referring to the fact that they omitted Engine from the listing. Changing Thomas from a train to a tank. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Today’s TV: 21 NOvember 2001, Perth
Source: The West Australian


I noticed that Channel 9 Perth aired Sale of the Century at an earlier time at 5:30pm. Back in the early days, they screened Sale at 7pm nationwide. However, Channel 9 Perth opted to air Sale at 5:30pm. Instead, US Sitcom Friends took over at 7pm timeslot. (as a result, Burgo’s Catch Phrase was bumped from 5:30pm to 5pm.) The reason why Channel 9 Perth moved the show to an earlier timeslot is because of decreasing ratings. But At least it went up against Channel 7’s Wheel of Fortune.
I miss Glenn Ridge and Sale of the Century more and more with every passing year.

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This Week Marks 18 Years since The Last Ever Episode of The Price Is Right with Larry Emdur where Contestant Trevor Won $10,394 worth of Cash and Prizes. Despite Missing Out on the $120,000 Stash of Cash Jackpot and all the other Prizes including the Alfa Romeo GT 2L worth $68,784 Including On-Road Costs, P&O South Pacific Cruise and Everything. Larry Emdur was Picked up by Laura Csortan, the Presenter of The Great Outdoors picked him up as the New Co-Presenter of Wheel of Fortune Australia in 2006. But now in Present Day now Presents the Chase Australia.

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Today’s TV:

21.11.1974, Melbourne

Source: Listener In-TV

21.11.1978, Melbourne

Source: Scene

21.11.1981, Sydney

Source: Woman’s Day / TV Day

21.11.1998, Melbourne



Source: TV Week

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Short episode of HHIS I see.

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I expected that Melbourne would have had the full HHIS, with TCN9 cutting away early, as the cricket was played in Melbourne and I thought GTV9 would only show the last few hours of play.

But it turns out that GTV9 also had a cut back HHIS to 9.50am then the first 2 hours of play of the cricket, not the last 2 hours. Both TCN and GTV had an hour of highlights late at night. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mDZVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wZQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6751%2C1774896

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Today’s TV: 22 November 2003, Perth
Source: The Sunday Times

I noticed that Channel 7 screened the Rugby World Cup match between Australia and England at Telstra Stadium. It was a great match between these two nations. After the final whistle blew, it went into extra time, until Jonny WIlkinson scored the winning field goal for England. During that period, the Wallabies were at its peak in the early 2000s. Seven News Perth aired at a later time at 7:30pm.
I remembered the good old days watching the music video shows, So Fresh and Video Hits. But with the rise of YouTube during the mid to late 2000s, most music video shows have ended production.
I noticed that CHannel 9 aired a repeat of The Price is Right with Larry Emdur on Saturday at 5pm. I wonder whether Nine Perth used TPIR as a counter programming to the Rugby World Cup Final?
I noticed that there was an M rated programming at 3pm on SBS. Although I was too young to remember what happened back 20 years ago, I believed that this contained some adult themes.

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I’m Sure that put a lot of butts in seats

I wonder if they only played artits who were under labels owned by Sony? The So Fresh CD series was a Sony series though they would license songs from labels under Universal Music Group to appear on those CDs

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Titanic aired from 8:30-12:30am the next day following the News and Harry’s Practice as a lead-out programming due to time difference.

The movie length is 3hr and 10 mins expanded to 4hrs to include ads

Today’s TV: 22 November 2003, Brisbane
Source: The Courier Mail

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Bark-Off? Really Nine?

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AFHV and Bark Off against a RWC Final

I also remember the Bathurst 24 hour, which was a GT and production car race, where the coverage on FTA was split to have a couple of hours at the start, a couple of hours at the finish, the hour at midnight which ended up showing more highlights of the support races as opposed to live action (not so easy at that time of the year) and maybe an hour at sunrise (can’t remember if the last bit actually was scheduled). But I also recall this was one of the first times that webcasting was tried at a live event and I was able to tune in at Uni for a few of the hours overnight. Naturally the quality wasn’t that great and action was largely restricted to pit lane coverage (always busy in a 24 hour race).

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I didn’t know Channel 7 had the rights to this way back then. I vaguely remember it being on SBS but not 7 back then.

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NBN affiliates missed out on a lot of Bugs Bunny cartoons that day.

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Melbourne TV: Sunday 26 November 1972
from The Age

ATV0
8.30 test pattern/music
9.00 Junior Magazine
9.30 Cathedral of Tomorrow (Rex Humbard)
10.30 Mass for You at Home
11.00 Building Today
12.00 Racing Review (results of Saturday’s races at Caulfield)
12.45 Sporting Service (professional cycling from Brunswick Velodrome)
5.00 Voyage of the Bottom of the Sea
6.00 News
6.30 Animal Kingdom (2 episodes)
7.30 The Great Adventure
8.30 Movie “Ten North Frederick”
10.30 Geoff Stone’s Face to Face (interviews)
11.00 Dr. Kildare
12.00 sign-off

ABV2
10.40 test pattern/music
10.50 Is This Your Career?
11.00 Divine Service
12.00 A Big Country (repeat)
12.30 Sow What (repeat)
12.45 Landline
1.00 Four Corners (repeat)
1.55 Tennis: Australian Hardcourt Championships (from Dendy Park)
4.10 Tennis and Cricket (cricket from the MCG: Victoria v. Pakistan, along with continuing coverage of tennis from Dendy Park)
6.05 Spoiling in the Sun
6.25 Dad’s Army
6.55 Weather
7.00 News (and Weekend Magazine)
7.30 Kamahl
8.00 The Liver Birds
8.30 News
8.35 The Onedin Line
9.25 Jesus Today
9.55 News
10.05 Not in Front of the Children
10.35 sign-off

HSV7
8.45 test pattern/music
9.00 TV Tutorial
10.15 If These Walls Could Speak
10.45 Survival
11.15 It is Written
11.45 Sunday Magazine
12.00 World of Sport
1.30 Tennis: Australian Hardcourt Championships
5.00 Cartoons
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News
6.30 Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970 stop-motion Christmas TV special)
7.30 Val Doonican
8.30 Movie “Boccaccio '70”
11.20 This Week
12.20 sign-off

GTV9
8.30 test pattern/music
9.00 Molecules to Man (science)
10.30 Religious Feature “The Long March”
11.00 Nature Walkabout
11.30 Federal File
12.00 World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Motor Bike/Car Racing (live from Brisbane)
2.00 What’s My Line?
2.30 The King Family Show
3.00 Point of View
3.10 Movie “Live Now, Pay Later” (1962 movie)
5.00 Humphrey B. Bear’s Incredible Christmas Day Theft (guest Johnny Farnham)
6.00 News (includes Magazine)
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Don Knotts Comedy Hour
8.30 Movie “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman”
10.20 News
10.25 Federal File
10.55 World of Golf (from Frankfurt, Germany)
11.55 Epilogue/sign-off

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Today’s TV: 26.11.1991, Melbourne

Source: TV Week

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Ten waiting until near the end of the year to air The Simpsons Christmas Special.

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What a description for the episode

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i’ve wondered about that for the last 20 years since i found out at age 11 10 started with Bart the Genius but the xmas ep was the first on my Season 1 DVD set

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