Now that you all have seen 10’s evening schedule (Local Time all around Australia) for June 11 of 2000, I now present your Sunday evening entertainment schedule across ABC, Seven and Nine (Local Time all around Australia as well):
ABC
7:30 PM Monarch of the Glen 8:20 PM ABC News Update
8:30 PM Dr Bell and Mr Doyle
9:30 PM Compass
10:30 PM Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach
Seven Most of Australia
6:30 PM Harry’s Practice
7:00 PM World’s Funniest
7:30 PM Dharma and Greg
8:00 PM 3rd Rock From The Sun
Nine SA and WA, unsure about VIC/NSW/ACT/QLD
6:30 PM Backyard Blitz
7:00 PM Postcards
7:30 PM 60 Minutes
8:30 PM Halifax F.P.: A Person of Interest
10:35 PM French Open Tennis
Neighbours is showing on TVW7 at 5.30pm. Noting the synopsis, my guess is that the episode dates back to mid-1986 – making Perth almost two years behind the eastern states.
Today’s TV: Thursday 20 March 1975 (Sydney)
from The Sydney Morning Herald
ABC TV (ABN-2)
8.00am Sesame Street
9.00 Schools
9.30 Play School
10.00 Schools Also at 10.20am, 10.40am, 11.20pm and noon
1.00pm News
1.10 Test Pattern and Music (Off air)
1.30 Schools Also at 1.50pm, 2.10pm and 2.40pm
3.15 Andy Pandy (B&W)
3.30 Play School (B&W)
4.00 Sesame Street
5.00 Adventure Island (B&W)
5.25 It’s a Happening World
5.35 The Forest Rangers
6.00 Target
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
7.00 News
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 The Last Rites
9.10 Retrospect
10.00 News
10.10 Movie - The Baby and the Battleship (1956) (B&W)
11.45 Closedown
Seven (ATN-7)
10.00am Romper Room
11.00 Morning Market
11.02 Cartoons (Rpt, G)
11.30 Hazel (Rpt, G)
Noon Midday Movie - The Loves of Carmen (1948) (B&W) (A)
1.30 Name That Tune
2.00 High Rollers
2.30 Until Tomorrow
3.00 Return to Peyton Place (A)
3.30 The Doris Day Show (Rpt, G)
4.00 Cartoon Fairytales (Rpt, G)
4.30 The Flying Nun (Rpt, G)
5.00 Mister Ed (B&W) (Rpt, G)
5.30 The Addams Family (G)
6.00 Bewitched (Rpt, G)
6.30 Seven National News with Roger Climpson
7.00 Class of ‘75
7.30 No, Honestly
8.00 …And Mother Makes Five
8.30 Father, Dear Father (Rpt, A)
9.00 Banacek (Rpt, A)
10.30 Thriller (AO)
12.00am Closedown
Nine (TCN-9)
7.00am Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Test Pattern and Music (Off air)
11.00 A Current Affair (Rpt) A repeat screening of last night’s programme
11.30 No Man’s Land
Noon The Young and the Restless (Double episode) (A)
1.00 As the World Turns (A)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Another World (A)
2.30 General Hospital (A)
3.00 Search for Tomorrow (A)
3.30 Spending Spree
4.00 Cartoon Corner
5.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (B&W) (Rpt, G)
6.00 Happy Days (G)
6.30 News Centre Nine (Sydney/Melbourne)
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Little House on the Prairie (G)
8.30 All in the Family (A)
9.00 The Ernie Sigley Show
10.30 Late Movie - The Unforgiven (1960) (A)
12.40am Men of Affairs
1.10 Viewpoint
1.15 Closedown
Ten (TEN-10)
7.00am Aquaman (Rpt, G)
7.30 Wild Kingdom (Rpt, G)
8.00 Children’s Programmes (Rpt, G)
10.15 Family Care
10.30 Religious Programme
10.35 Morning Movie - Track of Thunder (1967) (Rpt)
Noon The Mike Walsh Show
1.30 Matinee Movie - Candide ou l’Optimisme du XXe siècle (aka "Candide or the Optimist of the Twentieth Century) (1960) (B&W) (Rpt, AO) A French film with English subtitles
3.00 Lancer (Rpt, A)
4.02 Super Friends
5.00 Tarzan (Rpt, G)
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 The Brady Bunch (Rpt, G)
7.00 Gomer Pyle USMC (Rpt, G)
7.30 Matlock Police
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
10.00 Love, American Style (AO)
11.00 Late Movie - Ambush Bay (1966) (Rpt, A)
1.05am Around the City (Rpt)
1.10 Closedown
Foreign movies, most likely European, were usually cheaper than the usual US movie packages, so the 0-10 channels I think in particular were a bit more partial to them but more likely in late night or off-peak timeslots. But IIRC they were mostly dubbed, @PaddyTePou states it was subtitled. I think subtitled movies on TV were less common.
A very heavy sports load on WIN Territory with V8 Supercars from Adelaide, the 2003 Cricket World Cup match between Australia and India from Johannesburg, South Africa, the Australian Swimming Championship Highlights from Sydney Aquatic Centre, the Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Rugby League match between the Warriors and Bulldogs.
I cannot remember the 2003 Cricket WOrld Cup Final broadcast, but I assume that Nine used the likes of Richie Benaud, Ian Healy and Chappell.
I’ve always wondered why Seven kept The World Around Us at 6.30pm rather than doing Live AFL Double Headers on Saturdays (one match at 6.30pm, the other one at 9.10pm). SA matches might be a stretch, but WA matches would fit. Or even a live interstate game then full delayed game from Vic.
I think they preferenced Nine to be first because TV Week had a loose affiliation to the Nine Network. so then they just listed the 3 commercial channels – with 9 first – and then ABC.
The Age Green Guide I think did similar, listing 9, 7, 2, 0 until the 1980s when they decided to run the channels in the correct numerical order.
World feed commentary, Benaud, Greig and Healy were 9’s representatives but they were alongside Ravi Shastri, Sanjay Manjrekar and “local” Mike Haysman (who emigrated following the Australia rebel tours in the 80’s). There were 1-2 others.
