Classic TV Listings

Melbourne TV: Friday 27 November 1970
from The Age

ATV0
7.00 Fredd Bear’s Breakfast a Go-Go
9.00 Marvellous Munchkin Show
9.30 Owly’s School
10.00 Kindy
10.30 Magic Circle Club
10.55 News
10.57 A Woman’s Angle
11.00 Swami
11.30 Roundabout
12.30 Dr. Kildare
1.30 Memoirs “William Dobell”
1.55 Fruit Market Report
2.00 Movie “Sabrina”
3.53 Storytime
3.57 News
4.00 Rocky & His Friends
4.30 Patty Duke
5.00 Lost in Space
6.00 News
6.30 Hogan’s Heroes
7.00 The Rovers
7.30 Movie “Help!” (starring The Beatles)
9.15 Movie “Jack the Ripper”
10.45 Dundee and the Culhane
11.45 Rescue 8
followed by sign-off at 12.15

ABV2
9.00 test pattern/music
9.10 Form One Maths “Lilliput Australia”
9.30 Current Affairs 34
9.50 Junior Secondary Science Project “Animal Ways”
10.10 Play School
10.35 test pattern/music
10.50 History 1917-1967 “Uniting the Nations”
11.15 People, Places & Things “The Jenolan Caves”
11.35 Cricket: Australia v. England (first test from Brisbane)
12.45 test pattern/music
1.00 News
1.05 test pattern/music
1.15 Form Two Maths “Similar Figures 4”
1.40 Cricket (cont’d)
2.35 People, Places & Things “The Jenolan Caves”
2.55 Into Your Hands
3.25 Cricket (cont’d)
3.40 Adventure Island
4.00 Cricket (cont’d)
6.05 Cartoon Caper “Horsing Around”
6.10 Rolf Harris
7.00 News (and Newsreel)
7.26 Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Dynasty
8.48 News
8.50 Dr. Finlay’s Casebook
9.40 Sow What?
9.55 News
10.05 Movie “Murder Reported”
11.00 Cricket: Australia v. England highlights
11.30 sign-off

HSV7
7.00 Good Morning Melbourne with Johnny Farnham
8.30 Romper Room
9.00 Heartline
10.00 Woman’s World
11.00 Movie “Three Guys Named Mike”
12.30 Movie “The Farmer’s Wife”
2.00 Temptation
2.30 Beauty & the Beast
3.30 I Love Lucy
4.00 Mighty Mouse
4.30 Heckle & Jeckle
5.00 Flipper
5.30 The Flying Nun
6.00 I Dream of Jeannie
6.30 News
7.00 The Partridge Family
7.30 Best of Homicide
8.30 Movie “Teahouse of the August Moon”
10.50 News
10.55 Movie “Waterloo Bridge”
12.55 Death Valley Showdown
1.25 sign-off

GTV9
7.00 Super Flying Fun Show
8.30 Bozo the Clown
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Movie “Professional Soldier”
11.00 Where the Heart Is
11.30 Peyton Place
12.00 Days of Our Lives
12.25 Home Edition News
12.30 Movie “The Big Steal”
1.45 Fun with Food
2.00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2.30 General Hospital
3.00 Ben Casey
4.00 Skeeter’s Cartoon Corner
4.55 Uncle Norman and Joffa Boy
5.00 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.30 McHale’s Navy
6.00 Road Runner
6.30 News (includes Newsreel)
7.00 Julia
7.30 The Weekend Starts Here!
8.30 Movie “A Hard Day’s Night” (also starring The Beatles)
10.10 News
10.15 Movie “The Cabinet of Caligari”
12.10 Epilogue/sign-off

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Wow. I never knew.

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It was a temporary program over school holidays but they did an extra run towards the end of 1970 to commemorate one year of “the Seven Revolution”. Seven was impressed with him and was hoping this show would lead Farnham to sign up for bigger projects like a national variety show, and Nine was after him as well. He knocked them both back.

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So when did he host Opportunity Knocks? I recall that as a child.

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i’d have to google to check but i think that was a few years later, maybe around 1975-76?

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this was a re-run of NWS9 Adelaide’s 1971 Christmas panto, also starring Patsy Biscoe and Lucky Grills (Bluey/Bargearse). It must have been a late programming insert at GTV9 as advance listings (TV Times) had Skippy and Woobinda, Animal Doctor slotted in for that hour.

The special originally aired on 19 November 1971 in Adelaide, and on 26 November 1971 in Sydney and Melbourne.

Source: TV Week

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Today's TV: 28.11.1974, Sydney


Today's TV: 28.11.1974, Melbourne


Source: TV Week

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Melbourne TV: Saturday 29 November 1997
from The Age

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Not often (if ever) that you see SBS split Melbourne and regional Victoria?

I don’t think it ended up being split as I’m certain that match was live into Melbourne on the day as the match ended up a sell out. It would be SBS’s largest audience until the 2005 WC qualifier (which had a happier ending ).

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Ten with the two hours of Xena: Warrior Princess.
Meanwhile, it’s comedy movie night on Seven.

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Today’s TV: 29 November 2006, Perth
Source: The WEst Australian

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Yes it was at the very last minute that SBS was allowed to telecast the match live into Melbourne. I remember seeing it at my then-girlfriend’s family house, was memorable for the wrong reasons (apart from the loss, Peter Hore invading the pitch and cutting the net). WIN telecasted it into Albury and Western Districts (and possibly Shepparton as well) because SBS wasn’t available in those areas as yet. It wasn’t until late 2000 when the last rollout of high-powered transmitters started.

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Today’s TV: 30.11.1974, Tasmania

Source: TV Week

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Today’s TV: 1.12.1979, Melbourne


Source: TV Week

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Melbourne TV (and regional stations): Monday 2 December 1963
from The Age

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Today’s TV: 3.12.1983, Brisbane


Source: TV Week

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Spastic Appeal? Really?

“Spastic children are really appealing”… Yikes :woozy_face:

Thankfully, language around disability has changed a lot since then!

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Marlboro Australian Open Tennis, you don’t see that kind of sponsorship these days thankfully.

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