Anything Can Happen on Seven at 4.30pm sounds interesting. Haven’t heard of that and wasn’t aware Meldrum had hosted a show on another network before Countdown.
it was a kids show also featuring magician Ian Buckland and a puppet called “Molly” – possibly in reference to the nickname bestowed on Meldrum years earlier as a writer at Go Set magazine and which obviously later became his trademark.
Meldrum had also appeared as a regular on ATV0 pop music shows Kommotion and Uptight.
EDIT: my memory has just reminded me that Ian Buckland hosted another kids show at Seven, Do It. So now I’m not sure whether he co hosted Anything Can Happen. The shows might have had some overlap as Meldrum then took on a greater on air role at Countdown.
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Today’s TV: 1.4.1996, Sydney
Source: TV Week
- Re-runs of the Working Dog comedy series Funky Squad at 6.00pm!
- Some classic Aussie dramas too with re-runs of Prisoner (11.40pm) and Cop Shop (3.55am)
- Anne Fulwood now reading the late news at Seven, with Sandra Sully and Tim Webster doing the T_en News / Sports Tonight_ double at Ten.
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Since he’s listed as the reader in that guide, I presume Adam Digby most likely would’ve been filling in for Ann Sanders on Sydney’s Seven Nightly News during the Easter non-ratings period back in 1996?
Seven showing a Star Trek repeat at 11pm on a Monday night? The Original Series?
I don’t recall Adam Digby ever reading a news bulletin on Seven. I only remember him presenting weather and reporting for Sydney Weekender.
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Interesting to see Burke’s Backyard in the Saturday afternoon schedule before it moved to Primetime a few years later.
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“Unpredictable comedy and variety program” pretty accurate description for HHIS.
Magnum, P.I. the only captioned program in the schedule of all five networks for the day.
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I note that the ABC had its weekend news at 6pm. From memory it didn’t last long.
Much like The National that aired 6:30pm weeknights in 1985
I know this is not an “on this day” classic TV listing, but this was Canberra on 17/03/1993
Source: Canberra Times via Trove
- Nine/WIN had three hours of live coverage of the Lipton International tennis tournament from Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. This tournament is now known as the Miami Open ATP/WTA tournament and was held recently. Back in the days before ESPN and Bein Sports came along Nine used to telecast a lot of these tournaments held in-between the Grand Slams. In more recent times (can’t remember the year) the ABC telecast live the Indian Wells ATP tournament when Mark Phillipoussis played in the final.
- Capital News was on 9/WIN, no it’s not a Canberra news bulletin, but a short lived US drama about newspaper reporters in Washington DC.
- Prime and Capital still closed down for the night.
- SBS telecast live in prime time the semi-finals of the FIFA World Youth Championship soccer tournament held in Australia. Highlights were shown on the ABC at midnight, the purpose of this was so that some coverage was available in country areas that did not have SBS at the time.
- Attitude, a short lived current affairs programme aimed at a younger audience airs on ABC.
- The Jacksons, An American Dream, a miniseries about Michael Jackson and his brothers and family, was on 10/Capital.
- Prime had a local Canberra 6.00 news bulletin.
- ABC aired “Australia Television International” news late at night, a bulletin for Asia/Pacific viewers watching through the now-defunct network of the same name.
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And should still do so. 
More test pattern please! 
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Today’s TV: 3.4.1965, Sydney and Wollongong
Source: TV Week
- ATN7 and TCN9 competing in the morning with Cartoon Castle and Breakfast With Penny
- TCN9 had a few hours of sport between 9.30am and 1pm, taking a 10-minute break for Yoga!
- Bandstand on TCN9 and WIN4 presented a Folk Music special
- Four Corners is on ABC at 8pm
- Homicide is on ATN7
- TCN9’s Project 65 documentary series presented On Being A Sheila, a special report on the status of women in Australia.
This was the last Saturday night before a new channel was debuting on Monday… TEN10.
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Test cricket on 7…
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I liked the inclusion of the station’s addresses. Should have read “send all hate mail to…” 
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Today’s TV: 5.4.1977, Sydney
Source: TV Week
- Something on Channel 10 called Ronald McDonald’s Corner? A 15-minute advertorial for Maccas?
- Bellbird has now changed this year to 3 x 30-minute episodes a week but is axed later in the year
- Number 96 and The Box are also headed for the axe later in the year
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Judging by the timeslot, it sounds like a “program” aimed at children too. Probably wouldn’t see the light of day under current TV/advertising regulations!
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Melbourne TV listings from Thursday, April 8, 1999
from The Sun
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Everybody’s Business
6.30 Photography
7.00 Lifelong Learning: English
7.30 Mixy
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Richard Scarry
8.25 Spot
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Rupert
10.25 Eric Carie
10.30 Art Attack
10.45 Margaret Mahy Stories
10.55 The Trap World
11.00 The Storytellers
11.25 Black Hearts
11.50 Feral TV
11.55 Plasmo
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 National Press Club Luncheon (speaker Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett)
2.00 Bowls: Australian Super Pairs
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Koki
3.30 Play School
4.00 Kitu and Wood
4.30 Animal Crackers
4.55 Oscar and Friends
5.00 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.25 Wildlife
5.30 Rugrats
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Bush Tucker Man: Stories of Survival “The Cannibal Convict”
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Quantum (examines asthma and a new breathing technique that is helping hundreds of sufferers)
8.30 Australian Story “Night Train” (Robert Hood, a writer of horror fiction, tries to deal with his stepson’s violent death)
9.00 The Hello Girls “Work to Rule”
9.30 The Big Picture “Inside the Lords: Tug of War” (the annual tug-of-war contest between the Lords and the Commons)
10.10 Howard Goodall’s Choir Works
10.30 ABC News
10.35 Lateline
11.10 Inside Story
12.05 Australia Television News
12.30 The Kingdom of the Lost Boy (the relationship between China and Tibet)
1.45 When the State Kills (capital punishment)
3.00 Marketing
3.30 French
4.00 Out of Empire
4.30 Lifelong Learing: Alles Cute
4.45 Italianissimo
5.00 Japanese
5.30 The Global Economy
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Goof Troop
8.00 Adventures of Mickey and Donald
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A*mazing
9.30 The Village (British TV drama series)
10.00 Denise
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Midday Movie “Howards End”
3.00 Beverly Hillbillies
3.30 Power Rangers in Space
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 I Dream of Jeannie
5.00 Bewitched
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News (David Johnston)
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Dharma and Greg “Brought to You in Dharmavision”
8.00 Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place “Two Guys, A Girl and a Wedding”
8.28 Powerball
8.30 Peak Practice “Eye of the Storm” (premiere)
9.40 Peak Practice “The Prize” (premiere)
10.50 Parkinson (guests Brian Conley, Pauline Quirke and Bob Hoskins)
11.45 Seven Nightly News
12.15 Minder (British TV show)
1.15 NBC Today
3.15 Telemall Shopping
4.15 LAPD: Life on the Beat
4.40 Animal Rescue
5.05 Beyond 2000
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Hardcastle and McCormick
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 Jamie Foxx Show “And Bubba Makes Three”
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 The Price is Right
3.30 Married… with Children “Guys and Dolls”
4.00 Ship to Shore “Grate Escape”
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Full House “Joey Goes Hollywood”
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News (Peter Hitchener)
6.30 A Current Affair (Mike Munro)
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.29 Keno
7.30 Animal Hospital (hosted by Rebecca Harris)
8.30 ER “The Good Fight”
9.30 The Footy Show: AFL
11.00 Nightline (Jim Waley)
11.30 Brooklyn South “Skel in a Cell”
12.30 The Footy Show: NRL
1.45 Late Show with David Letterman
2.45 Entertainment Tonight
3.15 Victor Paul Shopping
4.15 Court TV: Inside America’s Courts
4.45 High Adventure
5.00 20/20
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight
7.00 Cheez TV: Spider-Man/Pókemon/Count Duckula
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton
11.30 Ten News (Jason Cameron)
12.00 Roseanne Show (guests Janine Turner and Larry Schiller)
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty and the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey “Oprah Plays the Island Newlywed Game”
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News (Mal Walden/Jennifer Hansen)
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons “Homer’s Night Out”
7.30 Seven Days “Gettysburg Virus”
8.30 Totally Full Frontal
9.30 Seinfeld “The Fusilli Jerry”
10.00 Mad About You “The Buried Fight”
10.30 Ten News (Sandra Sully)
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 Conan (a.k.a. Conan the Adventurer)
1.00 Public People, Private Lives
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day with Benny Hinn
28 SBS
6.00 Champions League semi-final: Manchester United vs. Juventus (continued)
6.45 Weatherwatch and Music
6.55 Telegiornale (RAI)
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal (France 2)
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario (TVE)
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Japanese News
1.00 Cantonese News
1.20 Mandarin News
1.55 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Front Up
4.30 School Torque
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village (the kingdom of Zinder, located in the heart of Niger)
6.30 SBS World News (Mary Kostakidis)
7.00 World Sport: ATP Tennis Tour/World Youth Cup/European Champions League
8.00 Insight (examinations of the problems associated with obesity)
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “The Law of the Gypsies” (1997, Hungary)
11.05 Hotline
11.20 Movie “El Censor” (1995, Argentina)
1.10 Movie “Sunset” (1990, Russia)
2.40 close
5.00 Weatherwatch and Music
5.30 Japanese News