Manly vs Canberra at Brookvale, Meninga’s first game for the Raiders, Manly won 20-12.
For the 1986 season, from what I’ve been able to see and gather these were the games shown by Channel 10 on the Sunday that season.
R1: Balmain vs Canterbury
R2: Parramatta vs St.George (Parra Stadium opening)
R3: Balmain vs Parramatta
R4: Canterbury vs Penrith
R5: ??? (Probably St.George vs Balmain?)
R6: Parramatta vs Western Suburbs
R7: ??? (Penrith vs Parramatta?)
R8: ??? (Manly vs Penrith or Parramatta vs Easts)
R9: ??? (Manly vs Easts?)
R10: Parramatta vs Canterbury
R11: Canterbury vs Manly
R12: ??? (Manly vs Souths or St.George vs Canterbury)
R13: ??? (Manly vs Parramatta or Souths vs Balmain)
R14: Canterbury vs Balmain (Parramatta Stadium, installing lights at Belmore)
R15: St.George vs Parramatta [Monday Night Football: Souths vs Illawarra]
R16: Parramatta vs Balmain? [MNF: Canterbury vs Wests]
R17: Balmain vs Manly [MNF: Souths vs Wests]
R18: ??? (Parramatta vs Cronulla???) [MNF: St.George vs Balmain]
R19: Norths vs Canterbury [MNF: Easts vs Souths]
R20: ??? [MNF: St.George vs Cronulla]
R21: ??? [MNF: Canterbury vs Souths]
R22: ??? (St.George vs Penrith?) [MNF: Parramatta vs Norths]
R23: Canterbury vs Parramatta [MNF: Balmain vs Penrith]
R24: Parramatta vs Souths [MNF: Balmain vs Easts]
R25: Souths vs Manly [MNF: Canterbury vs St.George]
R26: ??? [MNF: Canterbury vs Illawarra]
As far as I can tell, that edition of the paper (or at least the regional TV guide pages rather than the Sydney TV guide pages from that day’s edition) is on Google News Archive, Fairfax’s 1955-February 1995 archive of the SMH and Newspapers.com’s archive of SMH editions.
Not sure why the regional version of the TV guide would be in there over the Sydney one, perhaps because at some point the “Sydney” version of the paper was lost and the Statewide/Country Edition was used as a back-up at digitalisation time.
Melbourne TV listings from Wednesday, December 6, 2000
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Exploring the World of Music
6.30 New Horizons
7.00 Franklin
7.25 Little Monsters
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Kipper
8.10 Oakie Doke
8.20 Magic Mountain
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Petals
9.30 Play School
10.00 People of the Sea
11.00 Sisters in Arms
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Something in the Air
1.00 National Press Club Address (speaker Evelyn Scott, Chair of Reconciliation Council)
2.00 Parliament Question Time: House of Representatives
3.00 Bear in the Big Blue House
3.30 Play School
4.00 Blinky Bill
4.25 Koki
4.30 Simsala Grimm
4.55 Fly Tales
5.00 George and Martha
5.30 Daria
5.55 Gogs
6.00 The Spying Game “Assassins and Saboteurs”
6.30 The Good Life
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 A Gondola on the Murray “Mallee Country” (final)
8.30 The Fifth Set: Australia and the Davis Cup (documentary about Australia’s 100-year struggle for the Davis Cup; it questions whether it can survive the commercial pressures of modern-day sport)
9.30 A Difficult Woman
10.30 ABC News
10.35 The Mission (Clive Gordon focuses on the conflict in Central Africa)
11.50 Parliament Question Time: Senate
1.00 Movie “The Gypsy and the Gentleman”
3.00 Out of Empire
3.30 Everybody’s Business
4.00 A Sense of Place
4.30 Race to Save the Planet
5.30 Storytellers of the Pacific
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.30 All Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Cosby
9.30 Peak Practice
10.30 All-Star Squares
11.00 Denise
12.00 Movie “Bonanza: Under Attack”
2.00 Ricki Lake “I’m a Pregnant Teen Who’s Out of Control… Nothing Scares Me, Not Even the Jail”
3.00 Ellen
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00 Get Smart
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
7.30 Two Guys and a Girl “Teacher’s Pet Peeve”
8.00 That '70s Show “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”
8.28 Lotto
8.30 City Central “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”
9.40 Inspector Morse “The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn”
11.45 Seven News
12.15 Beggars and Choosers
1.20 NBC Today
3.20 Victor Paul
4.15 Telemall
5.10 Tony Danza
5.35 Jim Henson’s Animal Show with Stinky and Jake
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Barney and Friends
10.00 Animal Hospital
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 High Incident “Show Me the Money”
3.00 Banjo Paterson’s Man from Snowy River “The Grand Wedding”
4.00 Cushion Kids
4.30 The Price is Right
5.00 Summertime
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Frasier “How to Bury a Millionaire”
7.29 Keno
7.30 Judging Amy “Trial By Jury”
8.30 Airport: Christmas Special
9.10 Party! (final)
9.40 Diagnosis Murder “Murder Blues”
10.40 Nightline
11.10 Swimming: FINA World Cup
12.40 Late Show with David Letterman
1.40 Entertainment Tonight
2.10 Mad TV
3.05 Victor Paul
4.05 Twisted Tales
4.30 Turn 'Round Australia
5.00 Paradise Beach
5.30 All Together Now
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV: The Avengers/Pókemon/Bad Dogs
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 Jerry Springer “Fiery Ultimatums”
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey “Cheap Room Makeovers”
3.30 Neighbours
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld “The Butler Shave”
7.30 Becker
8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond “Sex Talk”
8.30 Mysterious Ways “The Grey Lady”
9.30 The X-Files “Syzygy”
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Talking Point
12.30 Sunset Beach
1.30 Cops
2.00 Danoz Direct
3.00 Victor Paul
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
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 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “Hi, Are You Alone?” (1993, Spain)
2.00 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 The Goldrush “The Concept of Speed” (how steroids are produced)
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village (bonsai hunting on the huge rock formations which rise from paddy fields in Vietnam)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 100 Images of the 20th Century
7.50 Fusions (interview with sculptor Ulrich Steiner)
8.00 The Movie Show
8.30 Hitler’s Children “Sacrifice” (part 5 of 5)
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “Ulysses’ Gaze” (1995, US)
12.55 Movie “Father’s Day” (1996, Germany)
2.35 close
5.00 Weatherwatch and Music
5.30 Japanese News
Sydney TV listings from Thursday, March 15, 2001
from The Sydney Morning Herald
2 ABN ABC
6.00 Man on the Rim
6.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
7.00 Archibald the Koala
7.30 Thomas the Tank Engine
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Angelmouse
8.05 Noddy
8.15 Magic Mountain
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 The Number Crew
10.20 Rigolecole
10.40 Scientific Eye
11.00 Acme School of Stuff
11.25 Australians
11.30 Visions of Democracy
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Something in the Air
1.00 Bowls: Australia vs. England
3.00 Tweenies
3.20 Animal Shelf
3.30 Play School
4.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
4.05 Little Grey Rabbit
4.15 Bob the Builder
4.25 Little Monsters
4.30 Arthur
4.55 Zoo Olympics
5.00 Rugrats
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Angry Beavers
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Daria
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Australian Story “Champion of the World”
8.30 Quantum (computers that can recognise humans)
9.00 The Arts Show
9.30 The Big Picture “Woodstock for Capitalists” (three-day festival of The Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ weekend features interviews with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger)
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Jazz Heroes “Ella Fitzgerald”
11.25 Movie “The Wild and the Willing”
1.25 Movie “The Fire Raisers”
2.40 Movie “The Magic Bow”
4.30 Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
5.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
5.30 A World of Difference
7 ATN Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.30 All Music Video
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Denise
10.00 All-Star Squares
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Ricki Lake “I Said I Had Cash to Get Your Time… I’m Broke as a Joke, Without a Dime”
12.00 Movie “Desperate Justice”
2.00 Heartbeat
3.05 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Home and Away: The Early Years
5.00 Bewitched
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 JAG “JAG TV”
8.30 Heartbeat “Shotgun Wedding”
9.40 Inspector Morse “The Settling of the Sun”
11.50 News
12.20 Martial Law “My Man Sammo”
1.20 NBC Today
3.15 Danoz Direct
4.15 Victor Paul Shopping
5.10 Holding the Baby
5.30 Damon
9 TCN Nine Network
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Blue’s Clues
10.00 Weddings
10.30 Fresh with the Australian Women’s Weekly
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 Movie “A Part of the Family”
4.00 Y?
4.30 The Cool Room
5.00 The Brady Bunch
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Survivor II: The Australian Outback
8.30 ER “Flight of Fancy”
9.30 The Footy Show: NRL
11.00 Nightline
11.30 Good Guys, Bad Guys
12.30 The AFL Footy Show
2.00 Late Show with David Letterman
3.00 Entertainment Tonight
3.25 Victor Paul Shopping
4.25 Shop America
4.55 Nine Lives
5.00 Paradise Beach
5.30 Market Forces
10 TEN Network Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV: Digimon/Pókemon/Dragon Ball Z
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 Jerry Springer “Overtime!”
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey “Understanding Your Emotional Style”
3.30 Neighbours
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Simpsons “Secrets of a Successful Marriage”
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld “The Wife”
7.30 Live This
8.30 Dawson’s Creek “Great Xpectations”
9.30 Mysterious Ways
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Movie “Precious Victims”
1.15 What Went Wrong?
1.45 Video Hits
2.00 Suzanne Paul
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the World
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6.05 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 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 SBS Dateline
1.30 The Wall “Concrete and Barbed Wire”
2.25 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Front Up
4.00 School Torque
4.30 World Sport
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village (reports on Prague and Vietnam)
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 City Cabs “Mexico City”
8.00 ICAM (Lorna O’Shane reports on petrol sniffing in Yuendumu, Broken Hill and Wilcannia)
8.30 Insight
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 All Stars
10.30 Soccer: UEFA Champions League match week 12
12.25 The Wickman Boys (Estonia)
1.00 Movie “One Evening After the War” (Cambodia)
2.50 close
5.00 Weatherwatch and Music
5.30 Japanese News
Canberra/Southern NSW, Mon 5 March 1984
from Southern NSW edition of TV Week
ABC Canberra/NSW/Victoria
8.00 Sesame Street
9.00 Larry the Lamb
9.15 Noddy
9.30 Play School
10.00 For Schools: Watch
10.20 For Schools: Personal Development
10.40 For Schools: A Search for Solutions
11.00 For Schools: Flip, Slide, Turn
11.20 For Schools: Walrus
11.40 For Schools: Infinity Limited
noon Four Corners
12.30 Weekend Magazine
1.00 News/Weather
1.11 For Schools: Words Fail Me
1.35 For Schools: My Place, Your Place
1.55 For Schools: After the Ouch
2.15 For Schools: Our Multicultural Society
2.30 Countrywide
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Captain Cookaburra’s Australiha
4.00 Play School
4.30 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
5.00 Star Blazers
5.25 Danger Mouse
5.30 Danger Mickey
5.54 Come & Get It
6.00 Home
6.30 Doctor Who (premiere)
6.54 Regional News
7.00 News/Sport/Weather
7.30 Yes Minister (premiere)
8.00 Fawlty Towers
8.30 Nationwide
9.00 Jemima Shore Investigates (AO)
9.50 News/Weather
10.00 All-Star Soccer
11.00 close
RVN2 Wagga Wagga/AMV4 Albury
10.29 Program Highlights
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 News
noon Mike Walsh (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Sons & Daughters
3.00 At Home
3.10 Family Feud
3.35 Smurfs
4.00 Wonder World ( C )
4.30 Jackanory Playhouse (C/premiere)
4.55 Cartoons
5.05 Fraggle Rock
5.35 Videobreak
5.40 The Little People
6.10 Regional News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Dallas (PGR)
9.25 NSW Lotto Draw
9.30 Cop Shop (PGR)
10.30 Meet Your Member
10.35 High Chaparral (PGR)
11.30 News
11.55 Teletext
mid. close
NBN3 Newcastle
7.00 News
7.30 Cartoon Carnival
9.05 Romper Room
9.35 Here’s Humphrey
10.30 Eight is Enough
11.30 Family Feud
11.55 News
noon Mike Walsh (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.25 Community Noticeboard
2.30 Sons & Daughters (premiere)
3.55 Go Health
4.00 Wombat ( C )
4.30 Flipper (C/return)
5.00 Happy Days
5.30 New Price is Right
6.00 News/Weather
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 TV Bloopers #3
8.30 News
8.35 Cop Shop (PGR)
9.35 Go Lotto!
9.40 Dallas (PGR)
10.40 Today’s FBI (AO)
11.35 Dick Emery
12.05 close
WIN4 Wollongong
6.30 Facing the Week
6.35 Jazzercise
7.00 Today
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.25 Courageous Cat
9.35 One Day at a Time
10.00 Young Doctors
10.30 Donahue (PGR)
11.30 News
noon Mike Walsh
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Young & the Restless (PGR)
3.30 Ace
4.00 Wonder World ( C )
4.30 Flipper ( C )
5.00 New Price is Right
5.30 Get Smart
6.00 News/Weather
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 The A-Team (PGR)
9.27 Go Lotto!
9.30 Dallas (PGR)
10.30 Movie “21 Hours at Muich” (AO)
12.30 News
1.00 Movie “Taste of Evil” (AO)
2.15 Reflections
2.20 close
GMV6 Shepparton
10.25 Morning Meditation
10.30 Here’s Humphrey
11.25 Here’s Lucy
11.55 Regional News
noon Mike Walsh (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.30 Community Corner
2.35 Restless Years (PGR)
3.30 Popeye Show
4.00 Children’s Hour (C/Skippy and Wonder World)
5.00 Muppet Show (guest Jaye P. Morgan)
5.30 New Price is Right
6.00 Regional News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The A-Team (PGR)
8.30 Dallas (PGR)
9.30 Prisoner (PGR)
10.30 Outlook (PGR)
11.00 News
11.50 close
CTC7 Canberra
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.55 Cartoons
10.00 Jazzercise
10.30 Coronation Street (PGR)
11.00 Eleven AM (PGR)
noon Mike Walsh (PGR)
1.30 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.25 News
2.30 Restless Years (PGR/premiere)
3.35 New Adventures of Batman (PGR/return)
4.00 Follyfoot (C/finale)
4.30 Lassie (C/return)
5.00 Get Smart
5.25 Community Billboard
5.30 Hogan’s Heroes
6.00 News
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 A Country Practice
8.27 News
8.30 Carson’s Law
9.30 Dallas (PGR)
10.30 Cagney & Lacey (PGR/return)
11.25 Movie “Betrayal” (AO)
1.15 close
CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo/MTN9 Griffith
9.00-10.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.50 (CBN-CWN) Around the Schools
noon Mike Walsh (PGR)
1.35 News
1.45 Sullivans
2.15 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
3.05 Young & the Restless (PGR)
4.00 Flipper ( C )
4.30 Wonder World ( C )
5.00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
5.30 New Price is Right
6.00 (CBN-CWN) Market Report
6.00 (MTN)|6.08 (CBN-CWN) Regional News/Weather
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (PGR)
8.30 Weather
8.35 Dallas (PGR)
9.30 Lotto Results
9.35 Hill Street Blues
10.30 Meet Your Member
10.35 Alice
11.00 (CBN-CWN) Market Report
11.00 (MTN)|11.10 (CBN-CWN) Regional News
11.30 (CBN-CWN) Epilogue
11.30 (MTN)|11.35 (CBN-CWN) close
Network 0-28 Canberra
4.10 Follow Me
4.30 On the Ball
5.30 Everybody Here (UK)
6.00 Rock Around the World
6.30 Jack London in the Great North (Italy)
7.00 International Sports Magazine
7.30 News
8.00 Traditional World of Islam (UK)
8.30 Movie “The White Rose” (Germany)
10.35 News/Weather
10.40 The Life of Puccini (Italy)
11.50 close
I barely remember Cartoon Carnival in the late 80s/very early 90s. I think they had He-Man at one stage, and a clip from that with the Cartoon Carnival name in some wacky font over the top.
Or maybe I was dreaming it. I was between the ages of 0-6 at the time and liable to pee on the carpet in the hallways of our first house.
Blankety Blanks each time it was re-booted only lasted a short period of time (1977-78 1985-86, 1996-97), Play Your Cards Right (1984) and childrens game show Match Mates (1982). Later there was Pot Luck (1987), Keynotes (1992-93), Supermarket Sweep (1994-96), Hot Streak (1998), Man O Man (1994) and Greed (2001)
And there was the later re-boots of shows that previously had a decent run that didn’t fair as well second time around such as Blind Date (1967-70) re-booted in 1974. Perfect Match (1984-89) then re-booted in 2002. The Superquiz in (1981) and (1989) were re-boots of Bob Dwyers Pick A Box which ran from 1957 to 1971.
I was just pointing out how much successful he was in producing serial drama as opposed with game shows.
Yes he did produce some gems like Sale Of The Century, Family Feud and Wheel Of Fortune - but he has produced some duds and some that didn’t work or stopped working once producers tampered with the familiar formats. As an example is in 2002 Perfect Match re-boot had children puppet Agro hosting with Shelley Craft (for Channel 7). Proof that sometimes familiar formats are best left alone
You should pick up a copy of Reg Grundy’s autobiography before throwing out statements like that. His success had been well defined by game shows and other scripted series, in Australia and around the world, well before Neighbours came along.
But back then it wasn’t unusual for regionals to be airing serial drama years behind their metropolitan counterparts (even further behind when dealing with US serial drama such as Young And The Restless and Days Of Our Lives) and it also wasnt uncommon to air just one of those serials and replace with an Australian program such as The Restless Years, Prisoner, and later E Street (NRTV aired this daytime in 1991 before catching up to metropolitan stations and airing Wed/Thurs) .
On the note of CTC 7 premiering The Restless Years 7 years after it started, NRTV was airing Prisoner in 1991.
Blankety Blanks came to an end in 1978 because Graham Kennedy chose to move on with other projects and interests and liked to walk away leaving the audience wanting more. He also had a public falling out with Channel 0 in Melbourne which didn’t help.
I think the profits from the successes far outweighed the losses from the duds. No producer has a perfect or probably even a passable hit rate. But to say he created Neighbours on the back of some dud game shows is not true. It is true that he expanded into producing drama and soaps in the 1970s (well before Neighbours) because they had emerged as a viable and popular product but also networks looked more favourably on dramas then as they attracted better local quota points than game shows. He really just followed where the market was going.
But there were a lot of dud dramas too. None of which seemed to hurt him as he retired a billionaire
I guess it comes down to individual opinions. Neighbours makes all his other works to appear to be just hiding in its shadow
I note you didn’t try to pick the others I listed to pieces. Perhaps fizzled could of been the wrong choice of word - perhaps i could of worded it that with some of his shows ending around that time, he needed to keep the money coming in before Neighbours - a show that would have died an unfortunate death if it wasn’t for the Channel Ten incarnation
at that time GMV6 used to just have results of NSW Lotto on Monday nights while AMV4 and the NSW stations carried the full draw on relay from TCN9. This even though half of GMV’s coverage area is in New South Wales. I remember seeing the NSW Lotto draws on CTC7 when in Thredbo on holidays because Karen Pini hosted.
