Melbourne/Gippsland, Saturday 11 June 1966
from TV Week
ATV0
3.30pm Compass
4.15 London Line
4.30 Discovery
5.00 Western Theatre (G)
5.55 Football Replay (relayed to BCV)
6.55 News Headlines
7.00 Patty Duke “Patty the Diplomat”
7.30 Ed Sullivan (guests Richard Burton, Pat O’Brien, Arthur Worsley, Jackie Vernon, Topo Gigio, Carmel Quinn, the Velantes, and Augsburg’s Jungle Wonders)
8.28 News Headlines
8.30 Gunsmoke “Gold Mine” (A)
9.30 Entertaining with Kerr (Graham Kerr)
10.00 King of Diamonds “Guided Tour de Force” (A)
10.28 News Headlines
10.30 Football Replay
11.30 close
ABV2/ABLV4
12.30pm Movie “Ghost of the China Sea” (A)
1.40 Barbican Regained
1.55 Sportsview (VFL reports/Hit Parade/Football Flashback/Story of the Derby/Australian Jr Swimming Championships/England v Scottish League soccer/Sporting Roundup)
5.20 Cartoon Time
6.00 League Football Replays
7.00 News/Newsreel/Weather
7.18 Football Roundup
7.45 Danny Kaye (guests Marguerite Piazza, and Freddie & the Dreamers)
8.30 Four Corners
9.20 Insurrection “Nothing in Heaven or Earth” (finale of this Telefis Eireann import, dramatizing the 1916 Easter Rising; A)
9.45 Sports Review
9.55 Movie “Simba” (A)
11.30 close
HSV7
9.30 Aspro Footy Show
10.00 HSV Turf Guise
10.30 Employment Service
11.00-noon Television Tutorial “The Canterbury Tales”/“Music by Numbers”
1.40 Station Re-Opening
1.45 Adventure Club
2.00 Hits of the Past
2.30 Consider Your Verdict “Queen vs Nelson” (A)
3.25 Football Scores
3.30 Under the Big Top
4.00 Saturday Matinee “The Big Leaguer” (G)
4.55 Football Results
5.00 Saturday Matinee cont’d
5.25 Pet’s Corner
5.30 Peter’s Fun Fair
6.00 Football Replay (relay to BTV/GMV; AMV as well?)
6.50 Sports/News/Weather (ditto)
7.00 Football Inquest
7.30 Perry Mason “The Case of the Unwelcome Well” (A)
8.30 Mavis Bramston
9.30 Fighting Words “Australia-Japan: Trading Partners or Rivals?”/“The Sale of War Toys Should Be Banned”/“Boxing Should Be Strictly Controlled”
10.15 International Theatre “Project: Pied Piper” (A)
11.15 Peter Gunn “Wold Case” (A)
11.42 Tomorrow’s Headlines
11.45 close
GTV9
7.30 Harveytoons
7.55 Little Tuppence Club
8.00 New Faces
9.00 Football Flashbacks
10.00 Turf Guide
11.00 Championship Bowling (Cross Roads Bowl, Adelaide)
11.30 Country & Western
12.30 The Samurai “A Spy’s Revenge”/“Poison Blade”
1.30 Matinee Theatre “Bail Out at 43,000” (G)
3.00 Buck Jones’ Western Theatre “The Ivory Handled Guns” (G)
4.00 Saturday Date
5.00 Shindig
5.30 Sport/News
6.00 League Replay
7.00 Lucy Show “Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere at the Taj Mahal Theatre” (guest stars Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Jimmy Durante, and Vincent Edwards)
7.30 Danger Man “Someone is Liable to Get Work” (A)
8.30 Red Skelton “The Red Skelton Scrapwork” (Red performs some of his favorite sketches and mimes, with Ed Wynn taking over as host)
9.30 Charlie Chan Theatre “Charlie Chan at the Racetrack” (A)
10.45 Interview
11.45 News/Sport/Trotting
12.15 Epilogue (Catholic minister)
12.25 close
GLV10
5.30pm 10 on the Town
6.00 Wackiest Ship in the Army “The Day the Crew Paced the Deck”
7.00 Gidget “Ring a Ding Dingbat”
7.30 Mona McCluskey “Diamonds are a Girl’s Worst Friend”
8.00 Bonanza “The Reluctant Rebel” (A)
9.00 Man from UNCLE “The Fiddlesticks Affair”
10.00 Theatre 10 “Moment of Indiscretion” (A)
11.30 close
South Australia/Broken Hill, Saturday 7 June 1975
from TV Guide SA TAB Daily Double airs during afternoon on ABC and ADS7
ABC
9.00 test pattern/music
noon Countdown
12.55 You Asked for It
1.15 Sportsview (CBS Golf Classic/1974 Australian Women’s Amateur Squash Championship/Lloyd Bridges’ Water World/Skiing: The Killy Style/Motorcycle Racing (bw))
4.45 Sporting Roundup
4.55 Little Big Time “Oliver in the Overworld”
5.20 Boy Dominic “Lodgings to Let”
5.45 Today’s Football (SANFL Game of the Day highlights)
7.00 News/Weather
7.15 Today’s Racing
7.30 Are You Being Served? “Big Brother” (A)
8.00 Four Corners
8.45 Softly Softly Task Force “Slip of the Tongue” (A)
9.35 VFL Football Action '75
10.50 Certain Women
11.40 close
ADS7 Adelaide
9.00 test pattern
10.00 Seven’s Super Saturday Show (includes Astro Boy, Long John Silver, and Max the 2000-Year-Old Mouse)
11.15 League Reserves Football
1.55 Movie “Here Come the Co-eds” (bw/G)
3.20 Movie “One Night in the Tropics” (bw/G)
4.30 Laramie “Siege at Jubilee” (bw)
5.30 News/Sport/Weather
6.00 The Big Replay
7.00 It’s Academic
7.30 Boney “Boney and the Strangler”
8.30 Cross-Lotto #109
8.35 Movie “The Trouble with Angels” (G)
10.45 Star Soccer
11.45 Goodnight/close
NWS9 Adelaide
9.00 test pattern
11.00 Hey! Hey! It’s Saturday
11.15 League Reserves Football
1.50 Korg 70,000 BC “The Story of Lumi”
2.15 Valley of the Dinosaurs “The Sabretooth Kids”
2.40 Hong Kong Phoeey “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall”
3.05 Scooby-Doo Adventure Hour “Spooky Fog”
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Look, Listen, Laugh & Learn
5.30 Football Inquest pt 1
6.00 News
6.30 Football Inquest pt 2
7.00 League Football Replay
8.00 Bonanza “The Wagon”
8.30 Movie “Death Squad” (A)
10.25 Movie “Istanbul Express” (A)
12.10 On This Day (bw)/Epilogue/close
SAS10 Adelaide
9.15 test pattern/music
noon Movie “Teacher’s Pet” (bw/G)
2.10 Movie “The Last of the Mohicans” (bw/G)
3.30 Stars of the Future (performers are under 16)
4.00 What in the World (Fat Cat appeared here)
4.30 Junior Jury
5.00 Animal World “Winged Treasure of the Jungle”/“Strange Creatures of Galapagos”
6.00 Combat “Odyssey” (bw)
7.00 Young Talent Time
8.00 Matlock “Don’t Get Involved” (bw/A)
9.00 Movie “Assignment to Kill” (A)
11.00 Hawaiian Eye
mid. close
GTS4 Port Pirie/BKN7 Broken Hill BKN7 programming in black & white only
5.25 (BKN) Greyhound Results
5.30 News/Weather
6.00 League Football Replay
7.00 Wheels
7.30 I Spy “Mainly on the Plains”
8.25 BHP Report
8.30 Riptide “The Boat That Went to Sea” (A)
9.30 Movie “The Delphi Bureau” (A)
11.00 Christian Television Association (bw)
11.30 close
SES8 Mount Gambier
4.15 test pattern
5.15 Yellow House
6.00 Arthur of the Britons “Enemies and Lovers”
6.25 The Cowboys “The Trap”
6.55 Weather
6.58 Sports Report
7.15 A Country Affair
7.45 Journey to the Outer Limits (a look at Outward Bound, which teaches wilderness survival and mountain climbing)
8.40 Hec Ramsey “Scar Tissue”
10.20 Silent Number “Sniper”
11.10 Persuaders “Greensleeves”
12.05 Weather/Epilogue./close
Interesting that both ADS and NWS have SANFL reserves live (the latter following a snippet of Hey Hey) but the seniors’ replay shared between ABC and NWS.
Looking back at the 1993 listings, the ITN News at 6.30am on TCN9 and the regionals was presumably ITN World News that played in Europe about mid-evenings (so almost a simulcast, or fast track by satellite link?). Although made in the UK, they didn’t see it until some 12 hours later about 5.30am. Did the other Nine markets get it too?
Out, the lesbian and gay magazine on SBS that night was probably the UK’s Channel 4 programme - though I believe that was normally just an hour long, so this may be a compilation of two or more episodes. It debuted in 1989 as Out on Tuesday, and was considered quite a controversial series at the time.
One of the first TV shows I can remember watching. I can remember being at a friends place and watching it with their family… they had a VCR and it even had a remote control! (wired of course)
Live telecasts of the final quarter began in 1957 but ceased in the early 1960s due to a fear of dwindling attendances.
VFA was live on 0-10 throughout the late 60s to early 1980s. But until the Swans moved nothing regular for VFL (there were a few games at the SCG in 79-81). The 1977 Grand Final was the first live telecast of a Grand Final.
Prior to South Melbourne moving the live games were basically VFL Reserves matches (Commodore Cup, then Army Reserve Cup) played after World of Sport. There were a couple of Sydney games played per year from 1979-1981 and a game in Brisbane in 1981 that would have got live telecasts. Apart from that and the midweek cup matches nothing else other than the GF would have been shown live prior to 1982.
My memory (which is sketchy from then given my young age) of these was they alternated with the Swans matches as they played away. Were the televised matches a thing before South’s move?
From 1982-1986 they alternated between Swans games and Reserves games. Prior to the Swans move basically the only games played by the VFL Seniors on a Sunday (by act of Government legislation, not repealed until 1981) were those few exhibition games in Sydney/Brisbane scheduled between 1979-1981.
Contrast to the southern cities where the comparatively new Channel O news was at 6.30 while National 9 and Eyewitness 7 were at 6pm. Not much to be seen on TV in the morning.
