Classic TV Listings

[TheHomeOfMusic]

Let’s go back to an era when sport on television (and boxing in particular) was king, this was the “Rumble in the Jungle” fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. This fight was the subject of the documentary movie “When We Were Kings”. It aired in Australia on the Seven Network and in regional Victoria on BCV8 Bendigo, GLV10 Gippsland and AMV4 Albury. World title fights (usually from Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas) were common in the 1970s and I remember seeing them on Saturday afternoons back in the day. Today boxing is the domain of pay-per-view channels and sports pubs.

Wednesday, October 30, 1974
courtesy of the Age archives

BCV8 Bendigo/GLV10 Gippsland
9.00am Colour Test Pattern
12.00noon News
12.05pm The Doris Day Show
12.30 Hennesey
12.55 News
1.00 No Mans Land (relay from GTV9)
1.30 Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight
2.55 McArthur’s Segment (an advertorial for the shoe store chain across regional Victoria - GMV6 Shepparton had a similar segment)
3.00 Days of Our LIves
3.25 The Young and the Restless
3.50 Cartoons (usually Warner Bros cartoons, sometimes Popeye (the 1960s TV version) or Felix the Cat)
4.00 Heckle & Jeckle
4.25 Rin Tin Tin
4.50 Cartoons
5.00 Lost in Space
5.50 Class of 74
6.15 Local News
6.30 National Nine News (relay from GTV9)
7.00 A Current Affair (relay from GTV9)
7.30 Division Four
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
9.30 Ryan
10.30 Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight replay
11.30 News and Weather
11.40 Epilogue and Station Close

STV8 Mildura (was still a stand alone station at the time before joining up with BCV8 the following year)
2.00pm Shopping in Sunraysia
2.30 Switched on Living
2.45 Movie: Midshipman Easy
4.15 The Doris Day SHow
4.40 Children’s World
5.00 The Buccaneers
5.20 Tarzan
6.15 News and Weather (no National News relay at that time)
6.30 $25,000 Great Temptation
7.05 The Dick Van Dyke Show
7.30 Showcase 74
8.30 Number 96
9.00 Colditz
10.00 The Box
10.30 Station Close

BTV6 Ballarat
9.00am Colour Test Pattern
12.00noon Six News
12.05pm The Price is Right
12.55 Knit and Sew Better
1.00 Movie: Double Life
2.55 My Name’s McGooley
3.00 Temptation
3.55 Sew Easy
4.00 Here’s Humphrey
5.00 Top Cat
5.30 Batman
6.30 Seven National News (relay from HSV7)
7.00 Family Affair
7.30 $25,000 Great Temptation
8.00 Madigan
9.30 Division Four
10.25 The Box
10.55 Number 96
11.20 Six News
11.30 Epilogue and Station Close

GMV6 Shepparton
10.00 Colour Test Pattern
11.55 GMV News
12.00noon Movie: Beyond Mombassa
1.15pm Days of Our Lives
1.30 Temptation
2.20 The Mike Walsh Show
4.10 The Donna Reed Show
4.35 Dobie Gillis
4.55 My Three Sons
5.25 The Brady Bunch
5.50 $25,000 Great Temptation
6.20 GMV News
6.30 Seven National News (relay from HSV7)
7.00 Class of 74
7.30 Marcus Welby MD
8.30 Number 96
9.30 Movie: Target Zero
11.00 GMV News and Weather
11.05 Station Close

AMV4 Albury
12.00noon Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight
1.30pm Interview: David Niven - The Moon is a Balloon
2.30 Days of Our Lives
3.05 Coronation Street
4.00 The Littlest Hobo
4.25 Rocket Robin Hood
4.55 Uncle Ben’s Buddies Club
5.00 The Doris Day Show
5.25 Zorro
5.50 $25,000 Great Temptation
6.20 District News
6.30 Seven National News (relay from HSV7)
7.00 Class of 74
7.30 Marcus Welby MD
7.30 The Paul Hogan Show
9.30 Burt Bacharach 74
10.00 The Box
10.30 Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight replay
11.30 Station Close

SES8 Mount Gambier
Times in AEDT, subtract 30 mins for SA time
2.00pm The Doris Day Show
2.30 Woman’s World
3.50 Movie: Showboat
5.30 Look Listen Laugh and Learn
6.05 The New Flintstones
6.30 Here’s Lucy
7.00 Seven National News (delayed relay from HSV7)
7.30 $25,000 Great Temptation
8.00 Movie: Cat Ballou
9.35 The Box
10.05 Number 96
10.35 Frost Over Australia (David Frost)
11.35 Weather
11.40 Station Close

ABV2 Melbourne
8.00am Sesame Street
8.55 Colour Test Pattern
9.10 For Schools
9.50 Play Schools
10.20 For Schools
1.00pm ABC News
1.05 This Week in Britain
1.40 For Schools
3.15 Magic Roundabout
3.20 Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Sesame Street
5.25 Cartoons
5.40 Sea Lab 2020
6.00 Doctor Who
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Frank Tyson’s Cricket Corner (Regionals: Regional News)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Certain Women
8.45 ABC News and Weather
8.50 Torque
9.20 Soccer: Arsenal v Queens Park Rangers
10.15 ABC News and Weather
10.25 The Modern Jazz Quartet
11.00 Station Close

HSV7 Melbourne
9.30am Colour Test Pattern
11.00 Temptation
12.00noon Concentration
12.30pm Homicide
1.30 Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight (in colour)
3.00 $25,000 Great Temptation
4.00 Huckleberry Hound
4.30 Get Smart
5.00 Cheyenne
6.00 Bewitched
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Class of 74
7.30 On the Buses
8.00 Father Dear Father
8.30 Doctor in Charge
9.00 Muhammad Ali v George Foreman World Heavyweight Title Fight replay
10.00 Movie: Murderer’s Row (1966)
12.00am Seven National News
12.10 Movie: The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
1.10 Station Close

GTV9 Melbourne
6.30am Colour Test Pattern
7.00 The Super Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Colour Test Pattern
11.00 Vi’s Pad
11.30 A Current Affair
12.00noon Days of Our Lives
12.30pm The Young and the Restless
12.55 National Nine Newsbreak
1.00 No Man’s Land
1.30 General Hospital
2.00 Movie: Spiral Staircase (1946)
3.30 Spending Spree
4.00 Cartoon Corner
5.00 The Addams Family
5.30 McHales Navy
6.00 The Lucy SHow
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Division Four
8.30 All in the Family
9.00 The Ernie Sigley Show
10.30 National Nine Newsbreak
10.35 Dan August
11.35 Movie; The Naked Spur (1953)
1.10am Epilogue and Station Close

ATV0 Melbourne
6.30am Colour Test Pattern
7.00 The Non Stop Cartoon Carnival
8.30 Romper Room
9.30 Colour Test Pattern
11.00 The Roy Hampson Show
12.00noon Movie: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
1.30pm The Mike Walsh Show
3.00 Ben Casey
4.00 Fury
4.30 Gilligan’s Island
5.00 Lost in Space
6.00 The Brady Bunch
6.30 Eyewitness News
7.00 24 Hours (Mike Willesee)
7.30 Young Talent Team
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
9.30 Grandmother of the Year 1974 (in colour)
10.30 Movie: Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
12.30am Paul Bernard: Psychiatrist
1.00 Station Close

[littlegezzybear]

SMH Sydney television guide, 20 October 1973. All channels had live coverage of the afternoon opening of the Sydney Opera House. ABC had the evening opening concert from the Concert Hall, and Ten had a Mike Walsh Show special from the Drama Theatre (iirc).

Always watched Joe the Gadget Man on Nine. It was essentially a half hour promo for hardware and homeware chain Nock and Kirby’s. He always signed off “And remember bring your money with you. Bye now”.

[NewsWeary]

@littlegezzybear

Always watched Joe the Gadget Man on Nine. It was essentially a half hour promo for hardware and homeware chain Nock and Kirby’s. He always signed off “And remember bring your money with you. Bye now”.

I have fond memories of seeing Joe the Gadget Man doing demonstrations at the Warrawong Nock and Kirby store back in the '70s. The store was the 1970s equivalent of Bunnings. You didn’t often see celebrities making appearances around Wollongong back then.

I wasn’t aware Mal Walden had been seen on Sydney screens in his role as host of Jeopardy. Did they spell his name wrong in the listing?

I’d be interested to know if Marilyn Mayo was a regular on Sigley’s variety show.

[littlegezzybear]

I have no memory of Ernie Sigley on Saturday night, only the weeknight show he did. Marylin Mayo was a TCN institution, so no surprise she would have popped up.

[TelevisionAU]

@littlegezzybear

SMH Sydney television guide, 20 October 1973. All channels had live coverage of the afternoon opening of the Sydney Opera House. ABC had the evening opening concert from the Concert Hall, and Ten had a Mike Walsh Show special from the Drama Theatre (iirc).

The coverage of the opening of the Opera House was huge for ABC as one of their biggest outside broadcasts to date as it had linked up camera crews all around the opera house and Sydney Harbour to capture the event. The coverage was produced in colour, even though Australian TV was still Black and White, but was to be shown around the world, to many countries that had colour TV, including New Zealand! It was the ABC coverage that was picked up by the commercial networks for their own broadcasts.

ABC: Official Opening of the Sydney Opera House Opening (1973)

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I don’t have any recollection of a Saturday night Ernie Sigley show in 1973. I thought at that stage he was still hosting Adelaide Tonight (his national show that won him the Gold Logie began in 1974). Browsing the TV guide for Melbourne that week I can’t see any mention of an Ernie Sigley show on GTV9 so maybe it was a Sydney-only show for him?

[littlegezzybear]

I did a quick search and found that in early 1973 there was a Saturday night program Club 9, with Ray Warren as one of the hosts. It appears that program didn’t last, and it was replaced by Sigley on Saturday. In late 1973, TCN had tonight shows on four nights, Graham Kennedy on two nights, and Don Lane and Sigley with one night each. I’ll try to do some more research into this.

[TelevisionAU]

Here’s a listing from this day – 10 September – in 1978 for Brisbane. Ten years before TVQ0 was to become Channel Ten.

Nothing too remarkable about this day except perhaps for ABC having the Australian Grand Prix and Channel 9’s Operation Knock A Thon as a charity fundraiser.

And something of a competition for the family/kids demographic, with Disney at 6.30pm on 7 and Young Talent Time at the same time on 0.

And surprised to see Countdown at 5.00 although I guess it had to make room for rugby league at 6.00

[TV-Expert]

From 30 years ago today:

Thursday 11th September 1986
Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle, Canberra
SMH TV Guide

ABN 2
7.30 Carleton-Walsh Report (Rpt)
8.00 Mr Squiggle and Friends
8.30 Sesame Street
9.30 Play School
10.00 Daytime Programs
1.00 News
1.05 Daytime Programs
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Feathers, Fur or Fins
4.00 Play School
4.30 Captain Cookaburra’s Road To Discovery (Rpt)
4.55 Captain Pugwash
5.00 Inspector Gadget (Rpt)
5.25 Roger Ramjet
5.30 Terry and The Gun Runners
5.55 Come And Get It
6.00 Pop Movie (Final)
6.35 Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks (Rpt, Part 2)
7.00 News
7.30 7.30 Report
8.00 Flying Start - Small businesses
8.30 Victoria Wood As Seen On Television
9.05 The Comic Strip Presents - Bad News Tour (Debut of this comedy series)
9.35 The Carleton-Walsh Report
10.00 Encounters - The Hammer and The Cross
10.45 Anna of The Five Towns (Debut)
11.40 Close

ATN 7
6.00 The Tomorrow People (Rpt)
6.20 Family Affair (Rpt)
6.45 Cartoon Connection (Rpts)
8.30 The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (Rpt)
9.00 Romper Room
10.00 Falcon Crest (Rpt)
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie - Eyewitness (1969, Rpt)
2.00 New Price Is Right (Rpt)
3.00 Man from UNCLE (Rpt)
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Littlest Hobo (Rpt)
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 Charles In Charge
6.00 News
6.45 Sport Today
7.00 Terry Willesee Tonight
7.30 Sons And Daughters
8.30 Cagney and Lacey (Rpt)
9.30 The Professionals (Rpt)
10.35 Newsworld
11.30 Lonelyhearts Kid
12.00 News Overnight

TCN 9
6.00 News and Weather
6.30 Today (Business Today at 6.40)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 The Young Doctors (Rpt)
10.30 General Hospital
11.30 Morning News
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.30 Daytime Serials
3.30 The Sullivans (Rpt)
4.00 C’mon Kids
5.00 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
5.30 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.00 News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of The Century
7.30 Murder She Wrote
8.30 Miami Vice (1986 Final)
9.30 Remington Steele
10.30 Late News
10.35 Double Dare (Rpt, Final)
11.35 Newhart
12.05 Movie - Every Home Should Have One (1970, Rpt)
2.00 Movie - B.A.D. Cats (1980)
3.25 Movie - The Male Animals (1942, B&W)
5.10 Bonanza (Rpt)

TEN 10
6.00 Morning News Report
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 Good Morning Sydney
10.00 Fat Cat
10.30 Another World
11.30 News
12.00 Movie - Blowing Wild (1953, Rpt, B&W)
2.00 Carson’s Law (Rpt)
3.00 Hogan’s Heroes (Rpt)
3.30 Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks (Rpt)
4.00 Off The Dish
4.30 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World
5.00 The Brady Bunch (Rpt)
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 News, Sport and Weather
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 MAS*H (Rpts)
8.30 Dorothy Stratten: Portrait of a Centerfold (Debut)
10.00 1986 Dally M Awards - Sports awards with Ray Warren
11.30 News
11.35 American Football - NFL: San Diego Chargers v Miami Dolphins
2.35 Religious (Rpt)
2.40 Close

SBS
4.25 Swami Sarasvati (Rpt) - Yoga show
4.30 Kaleidoscope - International cartoons
5.00 Everybody Here (Rpt) - Multicultural childen’s series (UK)
5.30 Marco Polo’s Stone (Rpt) - Children’s adventure series from Italy.
6.00 Rosa De Lejos - Drama series (Argentina)
6.30 The Noise - Rock
7.00 News, Weather.
7.30 Not Suitable for Adults (Rpt) - For teens.
8.00 Hello Australia - Assists people whose first language is not English, to understand Australia.
8.30 Movie - Karageorge’s Death (1983, Yugoslavia)
10.05 World Soccer (Rpt)
11.05 Close

WIN 4 Wollongong
6.00 News
6.30 Today
9.00 Fat Cat
9.30 Cartoon (Rpt)
9.40 Jazzercise (Rpt)
10.05 Daytime Serials
11.30 News
12.00 The Midday Show
1.30 Serials
3.30 For Young Viewers
5.00 Perfect Match
5.30 Sale of The Century
6.00 News (local news, followed by TCN News at 6.30)
7.00 Willesee
7.30 Love Thy Neighbour
8.00 George and Mildred
8.30 Human Face of Hong Kong (Rpt)
10.30 Championship Wrestling
11.30 Falcon Crest
12.00 News Repeat
12.30 Movie - Diane (1956)
2.30 Close

NBN 3 Newcastle
6.00 Cartoon Carnival
6.50 News
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 CES
9.05 Romper Room
9.30 Here’s Humphrey
10.25 The Lucy Show
10.55 Wheel of Fortune
11.20 Coronation Street
11.55 News
12.00 The Midday Show
1.30 Serials
4.00 For The Children
5.00 Happy Days
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 News
7.00 Sale of The Century
7.30 A Country Practice
8.35 Mini Series - Fatal Vision (Part 1)
10.30 World Championship Wrestling
11.30 Alice
12.00 Close

CTC 7 Canberra
6.30 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Adventures of Barney Miller (Rpt)
10.30 Coronation Street
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 The Midday Show with Ray Martin
1.35 Daytime Serials
3.30 For Kids
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of The Century
7.33 A Country Practice
8.35 Miami Vice
9.30 This Week
10.00 The Twilight Zone (Debut)
11.00 Movie - Secret Company (1969, Rpt)
12.55 Close

[littlegezzybear]

SMH Sydney television guide 20 November 1977. Nine had the rights to the Australian Open Golf in the mid 1970s, and this was the first year at the newly redeveloped The Australian course in Sydney, with the overhaul designed by Jack Nicklaus and financed by club member Kerry Packer. Nine covered all eighteen holes, prior to Nine’s involvement not all holes were covered.

I note QTQ-9’s hokey Orton’s Olde Time Music Hall late night on Nine. TCN-9 would show it over Summer, if my memory is correct. It wasn’t very good, in fact it was terrible

[TelevisionAU]

@littlegezzybear

I note QTQ-9’s hokey Orton’s Olde Time Music Hall late night on Nine. TCN-9 would show it over Summer, if my memory is correct. It wasn’t very good, in fact it was terrible

I have no memory of the show itself but i do seem to recall GTV9 also showed it over summer non ratings.

[Bluenoser]

Brisbane/Toowoomba/Lismore, Tuesday 24 November 1964
from TV Week

ABQ2 Brisbane/ABDQ3 Toowoomba
11.35 Schools: About Books
noon Schools: Science
12.20 test pattern
1.00 Matinee
1.35 Schools: Maths
2.00 Schools: About Books
2.25 Schools: The Angry Gods
3.00 test pattern
4.45 Kindergarten
5.00 Storybook
6.00 Biggles
6.30 Brothers-in-Law “Judgment Summons” (G)
6.55 (2) Interlude
(3) Regional News
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.30 Dr. Kildare “One Clear Bright Thursday Morning” (A)
8.20 Billy Borker
8.25 Export Action "Building Materials"
8.30 Sports Cavalcade
9.00 The Critics
9.30 Old Curiosity Shop (pt 2)
10.00 World Artists: Pablo Casals
10.30 Newsreel/Weather
10.40 close

ABRN6 Lismore
11.15 Schools: Science & Life
11.40 test pattern
1.00 Matinee
1.35 test pattern
2.00 Crafts of the Enga
2.20 Schools: Science & Life
2.40 Schools: Maths for First Form
3.00 test pattern
4.45 Kindergarten
5.00 Storybook
6.00 Biggles
6.30 Brothers-in-Law “Judgment Summons” (G)
6.55 Regional News
7.00 News/Newsreel
7.30 Dr. Kildare “One Clear Bright Thursday Morning” (A)
8.20 Billy Borker
8.25 Export Action "Building Materials"
8.30 Sports Cavalcade
9.00 The Critics
9.30 Old Curiosity Shop (pt 2)
10.00 World Artists: Pablo Casals
10.30 Newsreel/Weather
10.40 close

BTQ7 Brisbane
11.55 Daily Diary
noon Midday Movie “Bottom of the Bottle” (A)
1.30 Love Story “Love in a Small Town” (A)
2.30 Beauty & the Beast
3.00 Brian Tait
3.30 Video Village
4.00 Happy Show
5.00 Heckle & Jeckle "The Power of Thought"
5.25 Cecil & Beany
5.30 Jungle Jim “Leopard’s Paw” (G)
6.00 Big News
6.30 Fatther Knows Best “Barry’s Brother” (G)
7.00 Tuesday Movie “The Road to Bali” (G)
8.25 News Headlines
8.30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Paper Bullets"
9.25 News Headlines
9.30 Hawaiian Eye “White Pigeon Ticket” (A)
10.30 Late News (includes a clip of the JFK assassination)
11.00 Epilogue
11.10 close

RTN8 Lismore
5.00 RTN Juniors
6.25 Interlude
6.30 Rural Topics & News
6.45 News/Weather
7.00 Our Man Higgins “Meet Aunt Sadie” (G)
7.30 McHale’s Navy “Six Pounds from Paradise” (G)
8.00 Laramie “The Runaway” (G)
9.00 Untouchables “Tunnel of Horrors” (A)
9.55 News Headlines
10.00 RTN Special
10.20 Closing Thought
10.25 close

QTQ9 Brisbane
10.50 Let’s Talk It Over
11.00 Romper Room
11.45 Living Graciously
noon Tuesday Midday Movie “Holiday Inn” (G)
1.30 Take the Hint
2.00 It Could Be You
2.30 Concentration
3.00 First Impression
3.30 Jane Wyman “The Boy and the Coach” (G)
4.00 Channel Niners
5.00 Bomba the Jungle Boy “Bomba on Jungle Island” (G)
6.00 Top News
6.30 Shindig
7.00 Dick Van Dyke “Happy Birthday and Too Many More” (G)
7.30 Red Skelton “Crime Doesn’t Pay Like It Used To” (G/Beach Boys are Red’s guests)
8.30 Comedy Hour (Lucy’s guest is Bob Hope)
9.30 Naked City “A Wednesday Night Story” (A)
10.25 Robert Taylor’s Detectives “Time for Decision” (A)
10.50 Late News
10.55 Musical Nightcap (Wilbur Kentwll)
11.05 close

DDQ10 Toowoomba
4.15 Children’s Session
4.45 Channel 10 Juniors (G)
5.30 Cisco Kid (G)
6.00 Top News (networked from QTQ9)
6.30 Bachelor Father “The Blonde Issue” (G)
7.00 The Texan “The Reluctant Bridegroom” (G)
7.30 Rawhide “Incident in the Middle of Nowhere” (G)
8.30 Outer Limits “The Forms of Things Unknown” (AO)
9.25 SQ Country News
9.30 Cross Current “Perjured Evidence” (A)
9.55 Epilogue
10.05 close

[Bluenoser]

Melbourne/Gippsland, Saturday 4 October 1986
from TV Week

ABC (ABV2/ABLV4)
8.30 Let’s Learn Japanese
9.00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
9.30 Wonders in Letterland
9.50 SuperTed
10.00 Meldrum Tapes
11.00 Beatbox
1.00 Rock Arena
2.00 World Cup Superbikes
2.50 SANFL Grand Final
5.30 Local Heroes
6.00 Countdown
7.00 ABC News
7.30 State of the Arts
8.00 Australian Impact “RAN 75 Years” (a look at the RAN’s history and life for its sailors and officers today)
9.30 The Irish RM "The Aussolas’ Martin Cat"
10.20 ABC News
10.25 Rock Arena (guests include Frankie Goes to Hollywood, John Fogerty, and Severed Heads)
11.25 close

HSV7
6.00 Take Two
7.00 She-Ra: Princess of Power
7.30 Wuzzles
8.00 Adventures of the Gummi Bears
8.30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
9.00 Sounds
noon Cartoons
1.30 Davis Cup Tennis: Australia-USA (live from Brisbane)
4.30 Battle of the Premiers: VFL v SA (live from Perth)
6.00 Seven National News
6.20 Battle of the Premiers cont’d
7.30 Sport Aid: Ice Skating Spectacular (from Birmingham, England)
8.30 Super 66
8.32 Quincy “The Hero Syndrome” (PGR)
9.30 Tattslotto
9.32 Cagney & Lacey “Who Said It’s Fair?” (pt 1/PGR)
10.30 Knots Landing “The Key to a Woman’s Heart” (PGR)
11.30 Hardie’s Heroes
mid. Van der Valk “Diane” (PGR)
1.00 close

GLV8 (GLV aired 24 hrs on Saturday nights, but signed-off late-night during the rest of the week)
7.00 Adventures of Black Beauty ©
7.25 Ossie Ostrich Video Show ©
7.50 Cartoons
8.00 Surprise! Surprise!
10.00 Sounds
noon 1986 European Figure Skating Championships
1.00 Honeymooners
1.30 Davis Cup Tennis: Australia-USA
4.30 Battle of the Premiers: VFL v SA
6.00 Seven National News
6.20 Battle of the Premiers cont’d
7.30 Movie “Herbie Rides Again” (includes Super 66)
9.10 Movie “Agatha Christie’s 13 at Dinner” (PGR/includes Tattslotto)
11.00 Hardie’s Heroes
11.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
1.25 Movie “The Outlaw Josie Wales” (AO)
3.45 Movie "Gladiators of Rome"
5.10 High Chaparral

GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoon Company
noon Bonanza "The Arrival of Eddie"
1.00 Wide World of Sports
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
8.30 Movie “To Catch a King” (PGR)
10.30 World Match Play golf (live from Surrey, UK)
2.05 Movie “Satan’s School for Girls” (AO)
3.30 Movie “The Disappearance of Flight 412” (PGR)
4.55 Movie “River of Gold” (PGR)

ATV10
6.00 Music Videos
6.30 New Three Stooges
7.00 Early Bird Show
noon Edward Manifold Stakes Day (live from Flemington Race Course)
5.00 Bugs Bunny
5.20 Jack Absalom’s Outback Travel
6.00 Eyewitness News
6.30 Young Talent Time "Still Partying On"
7.30 Magnum “Blind Justice” (PGR)
8.30 Movie “Laura” (PGR)
10.15 Movie “Nightmare Alley” (PGR)
12.45 Music Video (AO)
5.00 close

SBS
1.40 A Marriage of Convenience
2.45 The Noise
4.15 Hello Australia
4.45 Movie “A Man and Amanda” (Sweden)
6.00 World Soccer
7.00 World News
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Right or Wrong My Country (Germany)
10.10 Movie “Love” (Yugoslavia)
11.45 Movie “Nothing But Love” (Italy)
1.30 Movie “Mysteries” (Netherlands)
3.15 close

[SydneyCityTV]

Wow, that’s a pretty late airing of Hey Hey It’s Saturday from GLV8!

[TelevisionAU]

@SydneyCityTV

Wow, that’s a pretty late airing of Hey Hey It’s Saturday from GLV8!

Would have been a G-rated program (on Nine) but perhaps deemed too risque for the poor country folk

But am surprised Ten had a close at 5.00am when it would have been up again from 6am on Sunday?

[TelevisionAU]

Who said footy on TV was just a boy’s club? In September 1960, GTV9 had an afternoon program Football For The Ladies. Featuring ‘comments on the preliminary final by ardent ‘one-eyed’ lady football fans’!

[TheHomeOfMusic]

@SydneyCityTV

Wow, that’s a pretty late airing of Hey Hey It’s Saturday from GLV8!

GMV 6 Shepparton also aired Hey Hey It’s Saturday in a late night timeslot from 1984-87. When it went to a night show in '84 they got numerous complaints about the Saturday night classic movies (hosted by the late Ron Euling and sponsored by Bridgestone tyres or Wattyl paints) being bumped for it, so off Hey Hey went to late nights and the classic movies returned! Although when Hey Hey aired a Boy George and Culture Club concert later in the year GMV screened it live. All I remember about it was when Molly interviewed the Boy he kissed him! From 1988 onwards Hey Hey aired at 6.30pm. But on Molly’s Melodrama when he usually plugged whatever was on MTV later that night it cheesed me off because no regional stations in Victoria carried MTV in the pre-aggregation era.

[TelevisionAU]

@TheHomeOfMusic

GMV 6 Shepparton also aired Hey Hey It’s Saturday in a late night timeslot from 1984-87.

When Hey Hey first went to prime time in 1984 its original timeslot was 9.30pm-midnight so maybe GMV just followed suit. In mid-1985 Nine bumped Hey Hey to 6.30pm to make room for test cricket coverage from England. I think the change was only intended for the duration of the cricket but the show never went back to the 9.30 timeslot.

[Bluenoser]

Melbourne, Saturday 1 October 1994
from TV Week

ABC
6.00 Rage cont’d
8.00 The Bottom Line
9.00 Open Economy: The Global Economy
9.30 Everybody’s Business
10.00 Visual Arts
10.30 Photography
11.00 Growing Awareness
11.30 Gardening Australia
noon Movie "Rosalie Goes Shopping"
1.30 How Do You Manage? "Huddling Up"
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Sport (ATP Tour Tennis, Soccer Magazine, School Sport, NFL, FISA World Rowing Championships, Sports News, Masters’ Games Welcoming Ceremony)
6.00 The Family Album "Clowning Around"
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Attitude "Against His Will"
8.00 Frontline “The Siege” (PG)
8.25 ABC News
8.30 The Bill “Shrinkage”/“Street Legal” (PG, includes ABC News)
9.30 The Man from Auntie (M)
10.00 Beyond the Clouds "The Fate of a Missing Relative"
10.50 Movie “Ex” (PG)
12.30 Australian Television News
1.00 Rage

Seven
8.00 Grand Final Breakfast
9.00 Juniors Grand Final
11.00 VSFL Grand Final
2.00 AFL Grand Final (in addition to over 8 million viewers in Australia, the game was also aired to 60 countries with a viewing audience of 47 million homes)
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Home Improvement "It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims"
7.00 Family Matters "Heartstrings"
7.30 Man O Man Champion of Champions (PG)
8.28 Tattslotto
8.30 Mulray (M)
9.30 Movie “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (M)
11.50 Tooheys Top Ten motor racing
12.50 Golden Palace (PG)
1.45 Movie “After Midnight” (MA)
3.25 Mancuso FBI (M)
4.20 Movie “Adventure in Ventana”

Nine
6.00 Gillette World Sports
6.30 Valvoline World Touring Cars
7.00 Goodsports ©
7.30 Hot Science ©
8.00 Barney & Friends
8.30 The Zone
9.00 What’s Up Doc
noon World Championship Wrestling
1.00 Wide World of Sports (includes racing from Epsom)
5.00 Burke’s Backyard
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
8.30 Movie “Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach” (PG)
10.30 Movie “Police Academy 6: City Under Siege” (PGR)
12.25 Late Show with David Letterman (PG)
1.25 Movie “Hollywood Harry” (M)
3.15 Movie “Naked Prey” (PG)
5.00 Kenneth Copeland

Ten
6.00 It’s a Knockout
7.00 Debate ©
7.30 Doug ©
8.00 X-Men
8.30 Biker Mice from Mars
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 Saturday Basketball
2.00 Movie "Botany Bay"
4.00 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
5.00 Ten News
5.30 A Country Practice "Over the Edge"
6.30 George & Mildred "The Dorothy Letters"
7.00 Brush Strokes
7.30 Unsolved Mysteries
8.30 Murder, She Wrote “Lines of Excellence” (PG)
9.30 Columbo “Blueprint for Murder” (G)
11.00 Ten News
11.30 Sports Tonight
mid. NBL Mitsubishi Challenge quarter-final
2.00 Just for the Record
2.30 Movie “Listen Darling” (bw)
4.00 High School Narc

SBS
6.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.45 Cantonese News
8.00 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.45 Novosti
10.15 Weatherwatch & Music
10.30 Engineering Data Reduction Error
11.00 The Journal
11.30 Nightly Business Report
noon English at Work
12.30 Movie “Green Green Grass of Home” (Taiwan/Mandarin)
2.05 Archaeology (US)
2.30 The Sunset Gang "(PG; US)
3.30 Movie Show
4.00 Nigel Mansell’s IndyCar ‘94 (UK)
4.30 For Better or for Worse (PG; US)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 World News
7.00 Great Chefs of San Francisco (US)
7.30 Dateline "Menzies’ Legacy"
8.30 Willie Nelson: My Life (US)
9.30 Movie “Corruption” (Italy; bw/PG)
10.55 Eat Carpet
11.55 Movie “Catwalk” (France; M)
1.25 close

Sky Racing
10.00 Boxing: Garcia-Ocasio/De La Hoya-Williams
11.00 Skylarks "LA Lingerie Ladies"
11.30 Latemail
noon Sky Raceday (Randwick, Newcastle, Flemington, Doomben, Toowoomba, Morphettville, Belmont, Mowbray)
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Sky Harness Racing (Maitland, Moonee Valley, Albion Park, Globe Derby)/Greyhound Racing (Wentworth Park, Penrish)
10.45 Sky Rock
2.00 close

[TelevisionAU]

Today’s TV guide is 25 September 1987 for Melbourne:

It was the eve of the VFL (AFL) Grand Final and as the VFL broadcaster in Victoria that year, ABC took over Seven’s traditional Grand Final Marathon overnight.

Some unusual Friday programming though among this listing. SBS starts transmission in the late morning whereas on Monday to Thursday that week they didn’t begin programming until 5.00pm. Also, Ten’s scheduling of Miss Teen USA in the afternoon is a weird one too. It certainly wasn’t a live or even near-live broadcast or anything as the event itself took place in July!

The afternoon programming on SBS and Ten indicates possibly some sort of public holiday although I can’t recall it was any holiday in Victoria on that day, although the day before (Thursday 24th) would have likely been Royal Melbourne Show Day. And given that SBS was programmed from Sydney… maybe it was a holiday in Sydney and Melbourne just got this programming by default?

Although whatever happened that day the biggest hit of the night would have likely been The Sound Of Music having its upteenth repeat on Nine but still a big ratings drawcard at that time.

[TheStyles83]

Try and find some Sunday Nights in 1988