Today’s TV: 19.6.1993, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
Local news on Ten on the weekends!
That’s amazing as my recollection was that Bewitched was on Channel O and Dave Allen on the ABC. Both appear here on 7, as does the Brisbane rugby league which I thought was always on ABC…
Bewitched started in Australia on 0-10 for its first run but later moved around in repeats. In Melbourne (possibly some variation elsewhere) it was on 7 for during the 70s and 80s then it sort of skipped around between all of 7, 9 and 10. Now i think it’s back to 7 (flix)
The Dave Allen Show on 7 was I think made in Sydney. He’d earlier had a popular tonight show on TCN9 in Sydney but I mostly only remember his British show seen in Australia on ABC.
So my memory isn’t that bad after all. I was only a young child
Melbourne, Sunday 29 June 1975
from TV Week, Melbourne edition
ATV0
10.30 You Say the Word
11.30 Mass for You at Home
noon Variety Italian Style
1.00 Racing Review
1.45 VFA Football
5.00 Bonanza “The Fence” (A)
6.00 News/Sport/Weather
6.30 Waltons “The Birthday” (A)
7.30 Six Million Dollar Man “Act of Piracy” (A)
8.30 Movie “The Beguiled” (AO)
10.35 Movie “Desperate Journey” (bw/A)
12.30 close
ABV2
11.00 Divine Service (from Adelaide, Most Rev. Dr. Keith Rayner is enthroned as the city’s Anglican Archbishop)
noon A Big Country “The Contract”
12.30 Sow What?
12.45 Science Report (bw)
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Radio with Pictures
2.30 Prism (bw)
2.55 Movie “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (G)
4.40 Mr. Benn (bw)
4.50 Jumbleland
5.15 Banana Splits “The Royal Visitor”
6.00 Countdown (guests Maureen Elkner, Renee Geyer, Adela Senton, Richard Clapton, and Biggles)
6.55 Weather
7.00 News/Magazine
7.30 Norman Gunston
8.00 A Big Country “The Pipeliners”
8.30 News/Weather
8.35 Onedin Line “Race for Power” (A)
9.25 Challenge “Meet Paul Sudhakar”
9.50 News/Weather
10.00 The Liver Birds (bw/finale)
10.30 close
HSV7
9.15 It is Written “I Met a Miracle”
9.45 Sunday Magazine
10.00 World of Sport Replay
noon World of Sport
3.00 Movie “The Aquarians” (G)
5.00 Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (guests Joe Namath and 12 Playboy Playmates)
6.00 News/Weather/News Magazine
6.30 Disneyland “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes” (pt 1/G)
7.30 Dick Emery Show “The British Character” (A)
8.00 And Mother Makes Five “Matter of Tiny Feet” (A)
8.30 Movie “The Trouble with Girls” (G)
10.25 This Week
11.25 Insight “King of the Penny Arcade” (AO)
11.55 close
GTV9
9.30 Science School (bw)
11.00 Religious Feature
11.30 Nature Walkabout (bw)
11.50 Point of View
noon Wrestling
1.00 Movie “Two Gladiators” (bw/G)
2.30 Movie “Raising the Winds” (bw/A)
4.00 Curiosity Show
5.00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea “Blow Up” (G)
6.00 News/Sunday Magazine
6.30 New Faces
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs “The Hero’s Farewell”
8.30 Movie “Torn Curtain” (AO)
10.45 News
10.50 Federal File
11.20 World of Golf (from Buenos Aires)
12.20 Epilogue/close
Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, July 7, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Lifelong Learning: Landscape and You
6.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
7.00 Taking Care of Business
7.30 Mixy
7.35 Teletubbies
8.00 Blinky Bill
8.25 Small Stories
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Johnson and Friends
10.10 Art Attack
10.25 Lizzie’s Library
10.30 Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
10.55 Genie from Down Under
11.20 Insektors
11.35 The Preamstone
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 The Flying Vet
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Media Watch
2.00 Embassy
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Petals
4.00 Play School
4.30 Animal Shelf
4.40 Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Lands
4.50 Oakie Dokie
5.00 The Wayne Manifesto
5.25 Little Lulu
5.30 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 As Time Goes By
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Bill “Holding On”
8.30 Inside Story “Urban Clan”
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
10.25 ABC News Update
10.30 Lateline
11.05 The Coolbaroo Club (1996 documentary)
12.00 Australia Television News
12.30 Movie “32 Short Films About Glenn Gould”
2.05 Movie “Find the Lady”
3.00 Open Learning: Out of Empire
3.30 Time to Grow
4.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
4.30 Everybody’s Business
5.00 Lifelong Learning: English Have a Go
5.30 Open Learning: Marketing
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
7.30 The Incredible Hulk
8.00 Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Animal Show with Stinky and Jake
9.30 The Monkees
10.00 Dateline NBC
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Mini-Series: Against the Wind (eps 5 and 6)
2.05 The Making of The Horse Whisperer
3.00 Grace Under Fire “Jimmy Moves In”
3.30 Disney Adventures: Goof Troop
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Interactive Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Better Homes and Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors
8.30 Oz Lotto
8.30 All Saints “Smooth Operator”
9.30 Chicago Hope “Objects Are Closer Than They Appear”
10.30 Clive James Postcards “Postcards from Rome”
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 NBC Today
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Sightings
3.50 LAPD: Life on the Beat
4.15 TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes
5.10 MacGyver
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 The Boys Are Back “Thanksgiving”
10.00 Real TV
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 What’s Cooking?
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Midday with Kerri-Anne
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Adventures of Superboy “Hell Breaks Loose”
4.00 Now You See It
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 The Price is Right
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8.00 Drew Carey Show “The Sex Drug”
8.30 Water Rats “Untouchable”
9.30 Murder Call “Dared to Death”
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Body Parts”
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Dave’s World “A Very Barry Pumpkin Show”
2.00 Wings “What the Cabby Saw”
2.30 Celebrity Home Shopping
3.30 Hunter
4.30 All Together “Stuck On You”
5.00 Law of the Land
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney and Friends
7.00 Extreme Ghostbusters
7.30 Street Sharks
8.00 Casper
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 Family Circle Television
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld “The Soup”
7.30 Mad About You
8.00 E! News
8.30 Kylie: Intimate and Live
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 Baywatch Nights
1.00 Sunset Beach
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day
28 SBS
6.00 Worldwatch: Japanese News
6.30 Weatherwatch and Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Japanese News
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Movie “Zombie and the Ghost Train” (Finland)
2.00 Australian Biography “Faith Bandler”
2.30 Weatherwatch and Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 Volleyball Australia
4.00 Sportswoman
4.30 Gourmet Ireland
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 New Horizons
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Champions of the World
8.00 The Cutting Edge “Chechnya: A Soldier’s Tale”
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “The Master” (Hong Kong)
11.05 The Silk Market
12.00 Movie “Eva Peron, The True Story” (Argentina)
2.00 Glim Metal Detectives
2.30 Movie “It’s a Mad, Mad World Too” (Hong Kong)
4.00 Fantasy World Cup
4.30 World Cup Soccer 1998: semi-final
What was Interactive Wheel of Fortune
It was broadcast live (in the eastern states) rather than pre-recorded.
Viewers (again, in the east) could call in and win a cash prize (I think it might have been about $10,000) if they guessed the puzzle before any of the studio contestants did.
For the final puzzle at the end, a pre-selected home viewer went head to head against the contestant over the phone (this gave viewers in SA and WA a chance to take part) In the first episode, the home viewer guessed correctly straight away and won a holiday.
I’d never heard of that one before. I’m trying to think if it might have still been when Tasmania had Neighbours on at that time or around that time (still several months behind the mainland, possibly even still behind the mainland in Home and Away too) so we may have missed out on it but I thought we’d had all of Wheel of Fortune.
Here’s a link to one of those Interactive Wheel of Fortune episodes from 1998.
The home contestants won the amount of money that the studio contestant spun up in the round.
Gee, I wonder if the home video market performed quite well on Friday nights back in 1993 with fairly unappealing primetime programs on all five free to air channels?
The episode titles of Ten’s daytime talk programs…not really sure what to say about those!
I wonder if the guests on Sally Jessy Raphael were the same to appear on Oprah… essentially the same topic!
It’s staggering how much good content there used to be on FTA.
These days you could combine the day’s content into a couple of hours easy.
Daytime television was so much better back then. Shows like Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael are out there if networks bothered to invest in daytime. Probably caused by the death of output deals.
Back before infomercials became a staple of FTA television…
It’s interesting Seven was showing (delayed) rugby league test in Melbourne as a lead-in to Friday night AFL highlights. I think Seven would not show another rugby league match until the 2013 World Cup.
Drew Morphett or Sandy Roberts usually hosted Friday night highlights show on HSV while Prime in regional Victoria got the whole match live.
I’d say the rugby league test was live- it would have started at 7:30.
Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, July 11, 1998
from The Age
2 ABV ABC
6.00 Rage (continues)
9.00 Recovery
12.00 Stateline
12.30 The Cricket Archives
1.00 Softball-Women’s National: Vipers v. Majesties
2.00 Saturday Grandstand (includes VFL: Sandringham v. Springvale)
5.00 Commonwealth Bank Trophy: Melbourne Phoenix v. Melbourne Kestrels
6.00 People’s Century “Endangered Planet”
6.55 The Dreaming “How The Waratah Became Red”
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Pie in the Sky “Smelling of Roses” (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 The Bill “Crime Management”/“Age Gaps” (ABC News at 9.20)
9.30 The Good News Weekend
10.20 Stompem Ground '96 (simulcast with Triple J)
12.00 Rage (simulcast on Triple J from 1am)
7 HSV Seven Network
6.00 Cross Country
6.30 Bob in a Bottle
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9.30 Tabaluga
10.00 White Fang
10.30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
11.00 California Dreams
11.30 Adventures of the Black Stallion
12.00 Elvis on Tour
12.30 Our Sporting Country
1.00 Chris Conroy’s Leisureworld
1.30 The Snow Show
2.00 Figure Skating
4.00 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
4.30 AFL: South Australia v. Western Australia (part 1)
5.45 Seven Nightly News
6.10 AFL: South Australia v. Western Australia (part 2)
7.30 Rubgy-Bledisloe Cup: Australia v. New Zealand
10.00 Movie “Once Were Warriors”
11.55 Movie “Warlock”
2.00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
2.25 Telemall Shopping
3.25 Movie “Homeward Bound”
5.10 MacGyver
9 GTV Nine Network
6.00 Hoyt’n’ Andy’s Sportsbender
6.30 The Hypernauts
7.00 My Generation
7.30 Goodsports
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Ship to Shore 2 “Banana Republic”
9.30 Wonder World!
10.00 Footy Frenzy
10.30 Young Indiana Jones “Peking, March 1910”
11.30 The Racing Show
12.00 Wide World of Sports
4.00 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman “The Most Fatal Disease”
5.00 Burke’s Backyard
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey! Hey! It’s Saturday
8.30 The Pretender “Stolen”
9.30 Up Close and Personal with Ray Martin
10.50 Tina Arena: In Deep Live
11.50 Renegade “Paradise Lost”
12.50 Late Show with David Letterman
1.50 Movie “10” (with Dudley Moore and Bo Derek)
4.00 All Together Now
4.30 Lost on Earth
5.00 Pastor Ian Britza “Far and the Family”
5.30 Creflo A. Dollar Jr.
10 ATV Network Ten
6.00 Care Bears
6.30 Barney and Friends
7.00 Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures
7.30 Deepwater Haven
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Bailey Kipper’s POV
9.00 Video Hits
12.00 Bright Ideas: The Home Improvement Show
1.30 Road to Avonlea “Of Corsets and Secrets and True, True Love”
2.30 Drive Time
3.00 Motorcycle Racing: 500cc British Grand Prix
5.00 Ten News
5.30 Sandra Sully Presents “The Lonely Planet: The Pacific Islands”
6.30 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys “The Green Eyed Monster”
7.30 Xena: Warrior Princess “The Debt” (part 2)
8.30 Movie “Suspect” (starring Cher)
11.00 Ten News
11.30 Sports Tonight
12.00 Ground Zero
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Aromapower
3.30 Danoz Home Shopping
4.00 Hillsongs Australia: Life is for Living
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Hour of Power
28 SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 Weatherwatch and Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.35 Cantonese News
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Japanese News
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Nightly Business Report
12.30 Survival
1.30 Two Bob Mermaid
1.45 Cracks in the Mask
2.45 Mimi Konwuk
3.15 Payback
3.25 Copyrites
4.20 Carpet Snakes
4.45 Fly Pee-Wee Fly!
5.00 Fire from the Earth
6.00 Sportswoman
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Champions of the World (the Mexican team)
8.00 Dateline
9.00 The Fast Show
9.30 Battle Angel Alita (Japan)
10.30 Movie “Weatherwoman Returns” (Japan)
12.00 Eat Carpet: Still Moving Special
1.00 Movie “A World Without Pity” (France)
2.30 Movie “Killer Nun” (Italy)
4.00 Fantasy World Cup
4.30 Soccer: World Cup France '98 (third place)
