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Here’s a real treat for classic TV listings fans, a tale of two cities - Melbourne and Adelaide. Here are the listings for Sunday January 13, 1985
Melbourne listings from the Age Green Guide (Google News Archives)
Adelaide listings from the Victor Harbor Times (Trove)

ABV2 Melbourne
10.00am Playmates (ABC pre-school series)
11.00 Divine Service
12.00noon The Christians
12.50pm In Grandmother’s Footsteps
1.30 The Blasted Heath
2.20 Movie: I Want You (1951)
4.00 Equestrian: Benson & Hedges Festival of Sydney Showjumping Championships
6.00 The Red and the Blue (cartoon)
6.05 Cosmos
6.55 Weather
7.00 ABC News
7.15 Weekend Magazine
7.30 Family Movies - Wilde’s Domain (1984)
8.45 Escape (BBC doco series)
9.35 ABC News
9.45 The Real Thing (BBC doco series on the function of the human brain)
10.15 World of Music - Pogorelic
11.00 Give Us A Go - Victorian Equal Opportunities Board
11.40 Station Close

ABS2 Adelaide

    • direct relay from the ABC national feed
      ** - time-delayed relay
      9.30am Playmates (ABC pre-school series)*
      10.30 Divine Service*
      11.30 The Christians*
      12.20pm In Grandmother’s Footsteps*
      1.00 The Blasted Heath*
      1.50 Movie: Two Tickets to Broadway
      3.30 Equestrian: Benson & Hedges Festival of Sydney Showjumping Championships*
      5.30 The Ghost and Mrs Muir
      6.00 The Red and the Blue (cartoon)**
      6.05 Cosmos**
      6.55 Weather
      7.00 ABC News
      7.15 Weekend Magazine**
      7.30 Family Movies - Wilde’s Domain (1984)**
      8.45 Escape (BBC doco series)**
      9.35 ABC News
      9.45 The Real Thing (BBC doco series on the function of the human brain)**
      10.15 World of Music - Pogorelic**
      11.05 Station Close

HSV7 Melbourne
8.45am It Is Written
9.15 Sunday Magazine
9.30 The Tomorrow People
10.00 World of Sport Replay
11.00 World of Sport
2.00pm The Leyland Brothers
3.00 Movie: Her Twelve Men (1955)
5.00 The Australians (Peter Luck doco series)
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 The Wonderful World of Disney - The Sky Trap Part 2
7.30 Sons and Daughters
8.30 Movie: The Great Gatsby (1974)
11.20 Movie: Lust for Life (1956)
1.45am Insight
2.15 Station Close (CNN and NBC Today did not start on HSV7 until March 1985)

ADS7 Adelaide
8.00am Sounds of Sunday (religious series made at BTV6 Ballarat)
8.30 American Pro Basketball (NBA replay)
10.30 World of Sport Racetrack
11.30 Big League Soccer
12.30pm Movie: Til The Clouds Roll By
3.00 Movie: Black Beauty
5.00 Disney’s Wonderful World (no details listed)
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 That’s Incredible
7.30 On The Buses
8.00 Bless This House
8.30 Movie: Mrs R’s Daughter
10.30 Special: Burp! Pepsi vs Coke in the Ice Cold War
11.30 Point of View (although it was made at GTV9, it was on ADS7 in Adelaide)
11.35 Station Close

GTV9 Melbourne
5.30am Kenneth Copeland
6.00 Sounds of Sunday (religious series made at BTV6 Ballarat)
7.00 Turn Around Australia
7.30 Here’s Humphrey
8.20 Point of View
8.30 Religious Feature: The Man from Inner Space
9.00 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Championships from Madison Square Garden
10.50 World Series Cricket: Australia v West Indies from the Gabba
2.30pm The Thrillseekers
3.00 World Series Cricket continues
7.00 National Nine News
7.30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
8.30 Movie: Touch and Go (1980 Australian)
10.25 National Nine Newsbreak
10.30 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Championships from Madison Square Garden
12.30am Movie: Dogs (1977)
2.15 Movie: Summertree (1971)
3.50 Movie: Ten Wanted Men (1955)
5.10 Bonanza

NWS9 Adelaide

  • direct relay from network feed
    ** time-delayed relay
    7.00am Kids’ Summer Season
    8.00 The Best of Jackie Gleason
    8.30 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Championships from Madison Square Garden*
    10.20 World Series Cricket: Australia v West Indies from the Gabba*
    2.00pm Wide World of Sport (ABC America)
    2.30 World Series Cricket continues*
    6.00 National Nine News
    6.05 World Series Cricket continues*
    6.30 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
    7.30 The Citadel
    8.30 Movie: Final Assignment
    10.30 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Championships from Madison Square Garden**
    12.30am World Series Cricket highlights
    1.30am Movie: Cisco Pike
    3.15 Movie: Concrete Jungle
    4.50 Movie: Miss Grant Takes Richmond

ATV10 Melbourne
6.00am The World Tomorrow
6.30 You Say the Word
7.30 Hour of Power
8.30 Mass for You at Home
9.00 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
9.30 Rubik the Amazing Cube
10.00 Abbott and Costello (cartoon)
10.30 Thundarr the Barbarian
11.00 Super President
11.30 The Bugs Bunny Show (before Sophie Lee hosted it on Nine to ratings success from 1990-92 Bugs and friends were on Ten)
12.00noon Movie: Spylarks
2.00 Movie: Bachelor Flat
4.00 Big Top Variety Show
5.00 Solid Gold
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 John Laws World
7.30 Cheers
8.00 MAS*H
8.30 Movie: Play Dirty (1969, Michael Caine)
10.45 Entertainment This Week
11.45 Second City
12.15am ITV Playhouse
1.15 Station Close

SAS10 Adelaide
6.50am Turn Round Australia
7.20 It Is Written
7.50 It’s a New Day
8.00 The World Tomorrow
8.30 Oral Roberts
9.00 Hour of Power
10.00 Greek Affair
11.00 Variety Italian Style
12.00noon Movie: In Search of Noah’s Ark
2.00pm Daniel Boone
3.00 Big Top Variety Show
4.00 Time Tunnel
5.00 Trax the Music
6.00 The Muppet Show (note they didn’t have a Sunday Ten Eyewitness News bulletin back then!)
6.30 The Down Under Show
7.30 MAS*H
8.30 Movie: Angel Dusted
10.30 Playhouse
11.25 Matlock Police
12.25 Station Close

SBS 0-28 Melbourne
3.45pm Young Heroes (Cantonese)
4.30 Diary of a Sheepdog (Dutch)
5.30 Cyrano (Italian)
6.30 0-28 World News
7.00 The Maestro’s Company (Australia)
7.30 Blue Summer (Spanish)
8.30 The Devil’s Game (Italian)
9.50 Movie: Images of Fate (India in Gujarati)
11.55 Domenica Sportiva (sports)
12.55am Station Close

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That could very well have been the first time I ever watched TV, it was the day I went home from hospital after being born. Hard to say though, can’t remember too much about that time, the 80’s were a crazy time.

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Not sure if anyone is interested but this is how The Australian Women’s Weekly TV & Entertainment World listed programs in Western Australia, February 1982.

It took the unusual step of listing regional channels first before the Perth channels. Presumably to maintain the template of other states by having the left-hand page split up into half-page of listings and the other half being movie reviews.

The TV magazine (TV World) initially was a separate lift-out magazine from the Women’s Weekly but later it was re-named TV & Entertainment World and was incorporated into the back section of the main magazine with a ‘zip-out’ program guide.

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Zip out? havent heard that for ages!

Surely by 1982 VEW8 had to be only channel broadcasting such a limited schedule

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Omg. Tv powww! I used to love it!

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NTD8 in Darwin was still operating on similar hours in 1982.

But on that listing I’m at a loss to explain what Sunshine was on GWN

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Yes I remember TV Powww! They had that on BCV8 Bendigo (and relayed to sister stations in Gippsland and Mildura), and AMV4 Albury/RVN2 Wagga Wagga.
Here’s a clip from a US TV Powww episode

and the theme song:

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It used to be on SEQ in Wide Bay/SC on Saturday mornings during their cartoon / music clip show Super Saturday.

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from Australian Womens Weekly TV World NSW Regional Edition
Saturday February 21 1981

ABC TV NSW
1.00pm Soccer - The Road to Wembley - Nottingham Forest v Manchester United
2.00 Masters Snooker Championships 1980
2.30 NSW Swimming Championships 1981
3.05 Greatest Sports Legends
3.50 Motor cycling
4.05 Motor Cycling 6-hour Production Race 1978
4.45 Tennis - Give It a Go
5.05 World Sports Roundup
5.20 Race and Sporting Roundup
5.30 Horse Talk
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 ABC News
7.15 Sports Review
7.30 Parkinson (guests: Martin St James & Brian Inglis)
8.25 Four Corners
9.20 ABC News
9.30 Trotting - A.G. Hunter Cup from Moonee Valley, Melbourne
9.40 Target
10.29 By-Election Results
10.30 Val Doonican Music Show
11.21 By-Election Results

GMV6 Shepparton
11.00am Greek Variety Show
12.00pm Racing from Melbourne
5.00 Family Hour Special
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 Wildlife Adventure Special
7.30 National Star Quest
8.25 Super 66 Draw
8.30 Movie: Father Dear Father (1973)
9.30 Tattslotto draw
9.35 Trotting - A.G. Hunter Cup from Moonee Valley, Melbourne (I presume via HSV7)
9.40 Movie continues
10.40 Movie: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width (1977)
12.05am News and Weather

RVN-AMV RVN2 Wagga Wagga/AMV4 Albury
1.58pm Programme Highlights
2.00 Tennis: Golden Racquet Challenge: Bjorn Borg v John McEnroe
5.00 Nick Erby’s Country Close Up (produced at CTC7 Canberra)
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 National Star Quest
7.30 The Muppet Show (Guest: Dizzy Gillespie)
8.00 Movie: Three on a Couch (1966) (includes Tattslotto draw at 9.45pm)
9.55 Movie: The Lawbreakers

CTC7 Canberra/CTC10 Goulburn-Cooma-Mt Taylor
8.00am Archie and Sabrina
8.25 Yogi’s Galaxy Goofups
8.45 Battle of the Planets
9.10 Tennessee Tuxedo
9.35 Bullwinkle Show
10.00 Sounds
12.00noon Wide World of Sport (ABC America)
1.00pm Dance Fever
1.30 In Search Of
2.00 Moive: Battle Beneath the Earth (1968)
3.30 Rolf on Saturday (Rolf Harris)
4.00 Time Tunnel
5.05 Diff’rent Strokes
6.00 Seven National News
6.30 Local News
6.40 Benson
7.05 Dick Turpin
7.30 Little House on the Prairie
8.30 Police 7
8.40 The Professionals
9.30 Movie: A Fistful of Dynamite
12.10am Movie: Welcome to Hard Times (1967)

NBN3 Newcastle/NBN10 Aberdeen-Scone
8.20am Waterline
8.45 Greek Variety Show
9.40 Racing Selections
10.00 Sounds
12.00noon Action Replay
1.00 John’s Workshop
1.30 University Programme
1.50 Movie: Here Come The Girls (1953)
3.15 Movie: Pony Express (1953)
5.05 National Star Quest
5.55 Civic Report
6.00 NBN News
6.35 The Muppets
7.30 MAS*H
8.30 Movie: Topaz (1969)
10.45 Movie: Chandler (1971)

Midstate Television 6-8-9 CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo/MTN9 Griffith
2.00pm Greek Variety Show
2.00 (MTN9) Variety Italian Style
3.00 The New Archie and Sabrina Show
3.30 The New Adventures of Batman
4.00 Flintstones
4.30 Bad News Bears
5.00 Nick Erby’s Country Close-up
6.00 National News
6.30 (MTN9) Making Men
6.35 National Star Quest
7.30 Battlestar Galactica
8.30 Movie: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
10.30 Movie: End of the World (1977)

9-8 Television NEN9 Tamworth/ECN8 Taree
11.55am Thought for the Day
12.00noon Sounds
2.00pm Tennis: Golden Racquet Challenge: Bjorn Borg v John McEnroe
5.00 Evening Rundown
5.05 Young Talent Time
6.00 National News
6.30 The Wotsaname Show
6.35 National Star Quest
7.30 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
8.25 Movie: Hunters are for Killing (1970)
10.00 Movie: Kona Coast (1968)
11.35 Thought for the Day

10-4-5a DDQ10 Darling Downs/DDQ5a Toowoomba/SDQ4 Warwick
in Queensland time
12.25pm Meditation
12.30 Sounds
2.30 Tennis: Golden Racquet Challenge: Bjorn Borg v John McEnroe
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 National News
6.25 Sports Report
6.43 Weather
6.45 National Star Quest
7.45 Special: 1981 Miss Summerthon Grand Final
8.15 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
10.15 Movie: A Fine Madness (1966)
12.00am Sports Replay
12.18 Meditation

WIN4 Wollongong
7.00am Fun Club
9.00 Sounds
12.00noon Big League Soccer
1.00pm Waterline
1.30 Happy Days
2.00 Tennis: Golden Racquet Challenge: Bjorn Borg v John McEnroe
4.30 Animal World
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 National News
6.30 Solid Gold
7.30 The Bionic Woman
8.30 Movie: 21 Hours to Munich
10.15 Movie: Company of Killers

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I’m reminded that RTS5A in Riverland was also on similar hours as late as 1982, starting transmission at around 4.30pm each weekday. But RTS5A had only launched in 1976, and NTD8 in Darwin had basically re-started from scratch in 1975 after Cyclone Tracy.

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Sydney/Canberra/most NSW markets, Saturday 24 September 1977
from TV Times, Coastal edition
(RVN2/AMV4 was only mentioned in movie listings, presumably those areas would have gotten the Victorian edition?)

ABC
1.00 The Big Ball Game
2.00 Sportsview (includes 1977 World Rowing Championships, Rugby Grand Final, Turf Daily Doubles, Australian Rules Preview, Race & Football Roundup, and Canoeing "Shooting the Colorado:)
5.35 Pot Black (BBC snooker tournament)
6.00 Countdown
6.55 Weather
7.00 News
7.15 Sports Review
7.30 Quest 77
8.25 Four Corners
9.20 News/Weather
9.30 (most areas) Movie “Cheaper by the Dozen” (G)
9.30 (Canberra/Wagga/Griffith)/10.55 (rest of NSW) VFL Grand Final

ATN7 Sydney
7.00 Funtime
9.00 MNOS
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Cher
1.00 Movie “Abbott and Costello in Society” (bw/G)
2.30 VFL Grand Final
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Gorilla (G)
7.30 Movie “The Prisoner of Zenda” (G)
9.28 America’s Cup Report
9.30 Movie “The Legend of Lizzie Borden” (AO)
11.30 Movie “Commandos Strike at Dawn” (bw/A)

TCN9 Sydney
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoons
7.30 Huckleberry Hound
8.00 Hey! Hey! It’s Saturday
11.00 TV Form Guide
noon Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Sail a Crooked Ship” (A)
2.30 Movie “Branded” (G)
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
6.00 News
6.30 Leyland Brothers: Trekabout “On the Wings of an Eagle” (the brothers are on the Trans-Australian Gliding Expedition from Perth to Wollongong)
7.30 Barnaby Jones “Fantasy of Fear” (A)
8.30 Movie “Carry On Again, Doctor” (A)
10.15 Big Valley
11.15 Spyforce
12.30 Movie “The Severed Arm” (AO)
2.00 Movie “Disciple of Death” (AO)
3.15 Movie “In the Year of Our Lord” (A)
5.00 Gideon’s Way “Lady Killer” (bw)

TEN10 Sydney
Movie Marathon airs until 7.35
7.35 Mothers-in-Law
8.00 Home Affair
9.00 Right On
11.00 Love on a Rooftop
11.30 Animal World “Shark Hunters” (G)
noon Movie “Anything Goes” (G)
2.00 Laredo
3.00 Run, Joe, Run
3.30 Primus
4.00 Junior Jury
4.30 What in the World
5.00 Young Talent Time
6.00 News
6.30 Wonder Woman “Wonder Woman v Gargantua” (G)
7.30 Movie “Charro” (A)
9.25 Movie “Assault on a Queen” (G)
11.15 Movie “The Fallen Sparrow” (A)

NBN3 Newcastle
7.55 You Say the Word
8.50 Here’s Humphrey
9.40 Racing Selections
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Star Soccer
12.55 Wrestling
1.50 Documentary
2.05 Movie “Land of the Pharoahs” (G)
3.50 This Week Has Seven Days
5.35 Thrillseekers
6.00 News/Weather/Sport
6.30 Wonder Woman “Formula 407” (G)
7.30 David Frost & the Unions: Can Australia Survive?
8.30 Shannon’s Mob
9.25 BHP Report
9.30 Tonight on the Town
10.30 Movie “Master Stroke” (A)
12.05 Movie “High Season for Spies” (A)

WIN4 Wollongong
8.00 Fun Club
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Sonny & Cher
12.55 Joe the Gadget Man
1.00 Daniel Boone
2.00 Movie “Beneath the 12 Mile Reef” (G)
3.50 Cisco Kid
4.10 Lost Islands
4.35 Rovers
5.05 Young Talent Time
6.00 News/Sport/Weather
6.30 Laverne & Shirley “Fakeout at the Stakeout” (G)
7.00 Rhoda “Rhoda’s Stakeout” (G)
7.30 Mary Tyler Moore “Lou Dates Mary” (G)
8.00 Barney Miller “Quarantine” (pt 1/A)
8.30 Movie “The Sins of Rachel Cade” (A)
10.38 America’s Cup Report
10.40 Movie “The Impersonation Murder Case” (A)

CTC7 Canberra
10.00 Sound Unlimited
noon Grandstand (includes Racing Roundup and World Master Snooker)
2.15 VFL Grand Final
5.00 Community Billboard
5.05 Waltons “Go Getter” (G)
6.00 News
6.30 Good Times “The Baby” (G)
7.00 Laverne & Shirley “Honeymoon Hotel” (G)
7.30 Bionic Woman “The Night Demon” (A)
8.30 Kojak “Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death” (AO)
9.30 Police 7
9.35 Movie “The Chase” (AO)
11.50 Meet Your Local Member
11.55 Star Trek

CBN8 Orange/CWN6 Dubbo/MTN9 Griffith
2.28 (MTN) VFL Grand Final
5.00 (CBN/CWN) Oral Roberts
(MTN) Wrestling
5.30 (CBN/CWN) Wrestling
5.50 (MTN) Making Men
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 (CBN/CWN) Market Report
(MTN) Cartoon
6.35 Reg Lindsay’s Country Homestead
7.30 The Practice “Molly’s Mistake” (G)
8.00 Don’t Drink the Water “The Lift” (G)
8.30 Weather
8.35 Paul Hogan
9.30 Movie “The Wild Party” (AO)
11.00 Freedom from Hunger “The Challenge”

NEN9 Tamworth/ECN8 Taree
1.00 Four Winds to Adventure
1.20 Movie “The Lion and the Horse” (G)
2.45 Living Tomorrow
3.00 Wall of Mouths (G)
3.50 Flintstones
4.15 Lost Islands "Malo"
4.40 Black Beauty
5.05 Batfink
5.30 Ugliest Girl in Town
5.55 Wotsa-Name Show (WIN4 and MTN9 also air shows by this name)
6.00 News/Weather
6.30 Donny & Marie (G)
7.30 On the Buses (G)
7.55 Countryside Affair
8.00 Royal Command Variety Performance (G)
9.50 Movie “The Macahans” (A)

NRN11 Coffs Harbour/RTN8 Lismore
4.00 Variety Italian Style
5.00 Almost Anything Goes
6.00 News
6.30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
6.35 Donny & Marie
7.30 Happy Days “A Place of His Own” (A)
7.55 Laverne & Shirley “Citizen Krane” (G)
8.20 Hawaii Five-O “Vashon, the Son” (A)
9.15 Movie “The Night of the Generals” (AO)

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Tasmania/Victoria, Thursday 17 July 2003
from The Australian

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
noon Business Report
12.30 Dateline
1.30 Hitler’s Children (Germany)
2.25 WeatherWatch
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Bondi Banquet (finale/Australia)
4.00 School Torque
4.30 World Sport
5.00 The NewsHour
6.00 Tour de France Highlights
6.30 World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Inspector Rex (Austria)
8.20 Hotline
8.30 Insight
9.30 World News Tonight
10.00 Movie “South Side Story” (Italy)
11.20 Subsonics (finale)
11.50 Tour de France Highlights
12.20 Movie “Hour of the Lion” (Germany)
2.00 close
5.00 WeatherWatch
5.30 Japanese News

ABC
6.00 New Dimensions
6.30 Business Breakfast
7.00 Billy the Cat
7.30 Henry’s World
8.00 Bob
8.10 I Spy
8.30 Sesame Street
9.00 Bear in the Big Blue House
9.30 Play School
10.00 Snailsbury Tales
10.10 Simon
10.20 Eckhart
10.40 Angela Anaconda
11.00 CatDog
11.35 Custer’s Last Stand Up
noon World at Noon
12.30 Take the High Road
1.00 Foreign Correspondent
1.40 Words
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Children’s Programs
6.00 Vets in Practice
6.30 George Negus
7.00 ABC News
7.30 7.30 Report
8.00 Catalyst
8.30 Wild West (finale)
9.00 TLC
9.30 Fat Cow Motel
10.00 True Stories: The Parkinson’s Enigma
10.45 Lateline
11.15 Rough Treatment Part 2
12.35 Movie "Campbell’s Kingdom"
2.30 Movie "Account Rendered"
4.30 Movie “Once Upon a Dream”

Seven Melbourne
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Playhouse Disney
9.30 A Country Practice
10.30 Seven News
11.00 Ricki Lake
noon Movie "Mr. Wrong"
2.00 Two Guys & a Girl
3.00 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Seven News at 4.30
5.00 MAS*H
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 Movie "Grease"
9.50 Greeks on the Roof
10.50 Angel
11.45 Providence
12.45 Seven News
1.15 Ruth Rendell Mysteries
2.15 DAG
2.40 Guthy-Renker Australia
3.35 Danoz Direct
4.00 NBC Today

Nine Melbourne
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
11.00 National Nine News
11.30 Fresh
noon Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young & the Restless
2.00 Education of Max Bickford
3.00 Dr. Phil
4.00 Y?
4.30 Entertainment Tonight
5.00 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
5.30 Price is Right
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Frasier
7.30 Getaway
8.30 This is Your Life (return)
9.30 AFL Footy Show
11.15 Nightline
11.45 British Open golf
4.00 Late Show with David Letterman
5.00 Just the Ten of Us
5.30 Entertainment Tonight

Ten Melbourne
6.00 Totally Wild
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
noon Jerry Springer
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 E Street
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold & the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Big Brother
7.30 Charmed
8.30 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
9.30 The Shield
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Big Brother-Up Late
1.30 Video Hits
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Religious Programs

Southern Cross (Tasmania)
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Playhouse Disney
9.30 Guthy-Renker
10.30 Seven News
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Bold & the Beautiful
noon Movie "Mr. Wrong"
2.00 Two Guys & a Girl
3.00 Oprah Winfrey
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Seven News at 4.30
5.00 Neighbours
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Southern Cross News
6.30 Home & Away
7.00 Big Brother
7.30 Will & Grace
8.00 Scrubs
8.35 Charmed
9.35 Secret Life of Us
10.35 Law & Order
11.30 Osbournes
mid. Ricki Lake
12.55 Worst Case Scenario
1.50 Judge Judy
2.15 DAG
2.40 Guthy-Renker Australia
3.35 Danoz Direct
4.00 NBC Today

WIN Tasmania
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
11.00 National Nine News
11.30 Fresh
noon Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young & the Restless
2.00 Berkley Square
3.00 Dr. Phil
4.00 Y?
4.30 Entertainment Tonight
5.00 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
5.30 Price is Right
6.00 WIN Local News
6.30 WIN News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Getaway
8.30 This is Your Life (return)
9.30 AFL Footy Show
11.15 Nightline
11.45 British Open golf
4.00 Late Show with David Letterman
5.00 Just the Ten of Us
5.30 Entertainment Tonight

Prime Victoria
6.00 Sunrise
9.00 Playhouse Disney
9.30 Home Shopping
10.30 Seven News
11.00 A Country Practice
noon Movie "Mr. Wrong"
2.00 Two Guys & a Girl
3.00 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Seven News at 4.30
5.00 MAS*H
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home & Away
7.30 Movie "Grease"
9.50 Greeks on the Roof
10.50 Providence
11.50 Angel
12.45 Seven News
1.15 Danoz Direct
2.15 Television Shopping

WIN Victoria
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Mornings with Kerri-Anne
11.00 National Nine News
11.30 Fresh
noon Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young & the Restless
2.00 Education of Max Bickford
3.00 Dr. Phil
4.00 Y?
4.30 Entertainment Tonight
5.00 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
5.30 Price is Right
6.00 WIN News
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Getaway
8.30 This is Your Life (return)
9.30 AFL Fotty Show
11.15 Nightline
11.45 British Open golf
4.00 Late Show with David Letterman
5.00 Just the Ten of Us
5.30 Entertainment Tonight

Southern Cross Ten (Victoria)
6.00 Totally Wild
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
noon Jerry Springer
1.00 Infomercial
1.30 E Street
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold & the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Simpsons
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Big Brother
7.30 Charmed
8.30 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
9.30 The Shield
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Big Brother-Up Late
1.30 Video Hits
2.00 Home Shopping
4.00 Religious Programs

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The last year for Tasmania having only two commercial stations with TDT beginning to broadcast at the very end of the year ahead of a Jan 1 launch. Southern Cross had quite a mix of Seven and Ten programming (as compared to the later years when even though TDT wasn’t statewide, SC were dumping the Ten shows). In the evening you cna see Seven Melbourne had Grease but SC had Home and Away at 6:30 because we were months behind, Big Brother (Ten), Will and Grace (Seven or Ten?), Scrubs (Seven?), Charmed (Ten) and Secret Life of Us (Ten).

I believe the only extra digital multichannels at this time were SBS World News Channel, ABCKids (the original) and FlyTV.

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From memory Home And Away was bumped to 6.30, and Today Tonight bumped entirely, to accommodate Big Brother at 7.00.

How did Southern Cross clear the backlog of Home And Away episodes to catch up to the mainland? Did they run double eps for a while or just got to a point where they skipped a whole chunk of episodes to bring them up to date?

And I’d forgotten all about Greeks On The Roof … oh dear.

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Yeah, because we were behind they had the ability to bump Today Tonight for it. Tasmania never used to get the break over summer for Neighbours or Home and Away so a catch up of a couple of weeks would occur over those periods and I think there might have been some additional double eps slotted in. There was certainly no noticeable drop of episodes. I think there was also a bit of a catch up for Neighbours too prior to Southern Cross dropping it and it being exclusively on TDT from around 2006 I think.

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I’m guessing Grease was a late schedule change which pushed everything back?
No love for Seven Late News pushed back to 12.45am. I think it was axed that year.

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Weird question?
Does anyone have any Tasmania/Victoria comparisons from early-mid October of any year from 2003-2006 by chance?

Back in the day Tasmania used to start daylight saving 3 weeks before the mainland, and I can remember seeing the Tasmanian listings had a heap of programs pushed back 1 hour for a few weeks, but i’ve never been able to find any listings since.

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It changed each year how it was handled, TDT used to just run the entire schedule an hour behind. The first couple of years they had a thing stuck on the screen saying an hour later in Tasmania - ie, promo still said it would be 7:30 but we’d know in Tasmania it would be 8:30. Later years they didn’t even do that so all programming was an hour out and the promo times were an hour out.

WIN and Southern Cross used to have to adjust schedules, if we were behind in shows like Neighbours and Home and Away it was fine, they could still run at the standard time. Other shows were simply an hour late. Some years shows like Blue Heelers or All Saints were seen an hour before the mainland and other years they were delayed an hour.

Today and Sunrise used to have really bad looking clock cover ups stuck over the on screen clocks so at least they had the correct time.

Radio had similar issues with keeping up. It was a great day when the other states finally aligned their start date with Tasmania!

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I remember that Triple J used to do separate time calls for Tasmania. “It’s 10 past 10 now, 10 past 11 in Tassie…”

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The ABC were pretty good, would often do a special edition of AM and early AM and their other current affairs programs.