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Sure. Any reason?

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just to reply to my own post
 it seems SBS’s extended Friday line-up was not necessarily a special occasion. Searching the Trove archive, The Canberra Times had a similar schedule for SBS on the previous Friday.

And also here’s the same day, 25 September 1987, this time for Brisbane (exc. SBS) and regional Queensland. Source: TV Week.

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Saying ‘Please’ also helps.

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Melbourne/Gippsland, Wednesday 16 October 1974
from TV Week

ATV0
7.00 Cartoon Carnival
8.30 Romper Room
9.30 color test pattern
11.00 Roy Hampson
noon Movie “Miss Annie Rooney” (A)
1.30 Mike Walsh
3.00 Ben Casey “The Night That Nothing Happened” (A)
4.00 Fury "Fourth Estate"
4.30 Gilligan’s Island "The Sweepstakes"
5.00 Lost in Space "Dream Monster"
6.00 Brady Bunch "Tell It Like It Is"
6.30 Eyewitness News/Weather/Sport
7.00 24 Hours
7.30 Love American Style “Love and the Hoodwinked Honey/Love and the Secret Spouse/Love and the Flunky/Love and the Cosy Comrades” (A)
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
9.30 Movie “Killdozer” (A)
11.00 Name of the Game “A Hard Case of the Blues” (A)
12.30 Paul Bernard-Psychiatrist
1.00 Weather/close

ABV2/ABLV4
8.00 Sesame Street
9.10 For Schools: National Maths Project
9.30 For Schools: Primary Maths
9.50 Play School
10.20 For Schools: Form 3 Maths
10.50 For Schools: Face to Face
11.15 For Schools: Living Here & There
12.15 For Schools: New Horizon
1.00 News
1.05 This Week in Britain
1.20 For Schools: Primary Maths
1.40 For Schools: ASEP
2.15 For Schools: National Maths Project
2.35 For Schools: Living Here & There
2.55 For Schools: Scan
3.15 Magic Roundabout
3.20 Flowerpot Men "Seeds"
3.35 Play School
4.05 Adventure Island
4.30 Sesame Street
5.25 Cartoons
5.40 Roman Holidays
6.00 Doctor Who “Colony in Space” (pt 5)
6.30 GTK
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 Cricket Corner
7.00 News/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Certain Women
8.45 News in Brief/Weather
8.50 Torque
9.20 Soccer: The Big Match-Tottenham v Middlesborough (filmed 28 September)
10.15 News/Weather
10.25 Graeme Bell All Stars (jazz)
10.55 close

HSV7
9.30 color test pattern
11.00 A Morning with Andrew Simmons (includes Temptation)
noon Concentration
12.30 Homicide "Mein Hee Wenzel"
1.30 $25,000 Great Temptation
2.00 Movie “I Was Happy Here” (A)
4.00 Anything Can Happen
4.05 Huckleberry Hound
4.30 Get Smart "I’m Only Human"
5.00 Cheyenne "Apache Blood"
6.00 Bewitched "The Phrase is Familiar"
6.30 News/Weather/Sport
7.00 Class of '74
7.30 On the Buses "Safety First"
8.00 Father Dear Father “One Dog and His Man” (A)
8.30 Doctor in Charge “Blackmail” (A)
9.00 Caulfield Cup Draw Special (live from the roof of the Old Melbourne Motor Inn)
10.30 News/Weather
10.40 Movie “Harlow” (AO)
1.00 close

GTV9
6.30 color test pattern
7.00 Flying Fun Show
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 color test pattern
11.00 Vi’s Pad
11.30 A Current Affair Âź
noon Days of Our Lives (A)
12.30 Young & the Restless (A)
12.55 Home Edition News
1.00 No Man’s Land
1.30 General Hospital (A)
2.00 Movie "Too Young to Know"
3.30 Spending Spree
4.00 Cartoon Corner
5.00 Addams Family "Uncle Fester’s Illness"
5.30 McHale’s Navy "Urulu’s Paradise West"
6.00 Lucy Show "Lucy and the Coin Collector"
6.30 News/Sport/Weather
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Division 4 "Fair Cop"
8.30 All in the Family “Mike Comes Into Money” (A)
9.00 Marcus Welby, MD “A Question of Fault” (A)
10.00 Dan August “Death Chain” (AO)
11.00 News Headlines
11.05 Movie “Pursued” (A)
1.00 Epilogue
1.05 close

GLV10
noon News
12.05 $25,000 Great Temptation
12.30 Doris Day
12.55 News
1.00 No Man’s Land
1.30 Days of Our Lives (A)
2.30 Young & the Restless (A)
2.55 McArthur’s Segment
3.00 Hennesey
3.30 Here’s Lucy "Working Daughter"
4.00 Heckle & Jeckle
4.25 Rin Tin Rin "O’Hara Gets Culture"
4.50 Cartoons
5.00 Lost in Space "The Colonists"
5.50 Class of '74
6.15 Gippsland News
6.30 News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Division 4 "Hello Stranger"
8.30 Number 96
9.00 The Box
9.30 Movie “Station Six-Sahara” (AO)
11.20 News/Weather
11.30 Epilogue
11.35 close

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I thought Romper Room was always a 7 show but I’m sure I’ve now seen it listed in various classic guides as 7, 10 and even 9. Similarly, I thought Bewitched was on 0-10 in the early days (I know the decades of repeats have been on all commercial networks) but it’s on 7 in that 1974 listing. Interesting. :grinning:

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Romper Room has had various versions over the years, both local and national. QTQ9 Brisbane produced a local one for several years, as did SAS10 Adelaide and even NBN3 Newcastle.

ATN7 Sydney had its own version which later went national across the Seven Network which essentially replaced the various local versions although I think NBN kept theirs going for a while longer.

Bewitched was initially on the 0-10 stations but later moved around. I remember it being on Seven when I was young but since then it has been on all of Seven, Nine and Ten. At one point in the 1990s it was showing on both Seven and Ten, I’m assuming they had different seasons.

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In Sydney Romper Room was always on Seven.

One famous oddity in 1974 was that Margaret Whitlam made a talk show for HSV7 Melbourne, but ATN7 declined to buy the program and it appeared on TEN10 in Sydney.

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Found this on Reddit - It’s from Melbourne in 1988

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For those of you playing along at home that TV guide is from February 23, 1988. :wink:

The Sydney programing schedule for that day is mostly similar, with a couple of notable differences. In particular, the local 9am program on Ten (perhaps unsurprisingly, titled “Good Morning Sydney”) while Terry Willesse Tonight was still running on ATN-7. Hinch made it’s Sydney debut on April 4, 1988.

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New Year’s Eve 1983.

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Interesting how many Daytime soaps were on back then


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Interesting how Australia’s two main TV networks (well the main channels anyway) went from a wide variety of programs to basically being news half the time.

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and we only got a fraction of them. There still titles in the US that never even got here.

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True I remember when I was in the states back in the mid 90s they could not believe we did not have Guiding Light in Australia

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At least Seven gave us Passions. :slight_smile:

Based on these old guides, it doesn’t look like Seven aired any soaps from the US during the day? Passions might have been their first.

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Possibly although Seven in Perth used to have Days Of Our Lives and The Young And The Restless while Nine had those shows in other states.

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Ahhh, the good ol’ coin flip days. I’m surprised that the ACCC equivalent back then (was there even an ACCC equivalent?) didn’t raise some questions about anti-competitive behaviour


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Perth (STW) was also close to 5 years behind Nine on the East Coast (Meaning at the time a total of about 8-9 years behind the US) on DOOL and Y&R as late as the Early 2000s. My parents had a family friend at that time
 since they’d moved from Melb-Perth to try and keep up with what was broadcast on the east coast they’d have friendsend recorded VHS tapes to them every week.

Not actually sure how STW resolved that (if they even did) as it was some years before Nine skipped several years on a national basis.

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Adelaide/Spencer Gulf/Broken Hill, Sunday 8 November 1992
from TV Week

ABC
6.00 Rage cont’d
9.00 Couch Potato
10.00 The Christmas Pageant
11.00 Songs of Praise
11.35 Circle of Faith "Great Religions in Australia"
noon Landline
1.00 Review
1.30 Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross (from ABC Picnic in the Park at Parramatta)
6.00 Around the World in Eighty Days "Oriental Express"
7.00 ABC News/Weather
7.30 A Most Remarkable Planet "Global Detective: The Journey of Death"
8.25 ABC News
8.30 True Stories "Who Killed Malcolm Smith?"
9.30 Movie "102 Boulevard Haussman"
10.45 Compass "Two Laws"
11.15 World Cup Golf Highlights
12.15 Take Me Home (AO)
1.15 Movie “The Longhorn” (bw)
2.25 close

SAS7
5.00 Hour of Power
6.00 Agro’s Sunday
7.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ©
7.30 Now You See It ©
8.00 New Adventures of Black Beauty ©
8.30 Sportsworld
11.30 Movie "Fiddler on the Roof"
3.20 Movie "Dream Wife"
5.30 Rex Hunt’s Fishing World
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 The Main Event
7.29 News Update
7.30 Full House "Bye Bye Birdie"
8.00 Step by Step "Getting Organized"
8.29 News Update
8.30 Movie “Total Recall” (AO)
10.55 Knots Landing “And the Walls Come Tumbling Down” (PGR)
11.55 Bergerac “Under Wraps” (AO)
12.55 NBC Sunday Today
1.55 Meet the Press (NBC)
2.55 close

NWS9
6.00 Clue Club
6.30 Great Grape Ape
7.00 World’s Most Secret Animals ©
7.30 Business Sunday
8.30 Sunday
10.30 Australian Grand Prix (live from Adelaide)
5.30 Head of the Class
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Our World "The Great White Shark: Lonely Lord of the Sea"
7.29 Newsbreak
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie “Reversal of Fortune” (AO)
10.45 Newsbreak
10.50 Australian Grand Prix Replay
1.20 Heartbeat (AO)
2.20 Movie “Stage Fright” (bw/PGR)
4.30 Twilight Zone (PGR)
5.00 Superboy
5.30 Sullivans

ADS10
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Discovering Jesus
7.00 Kids Stuff ©
7.30 Totally Wild ©
8.00 Mind Twist ©
8.30 It Goes ©
9.00 Video Hits
11.59 News Update
noon Movie "Daddy Long Legs"
2.40 Movie "Peggy"
4.15 Only Fools & Horses "Wanted"
4.59 News Update
5.00 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
6.30 New Faces with Bert Newton
7.29 News Update
7.30 Simpsons “Radio Bart”/"I Married Marge"
8.29 News Update
8.30 Movie “Legal Eagles” (AO)
10.50 Ten Eyewitness News
11.00 Meet the Press
11.30 Movie “The Sign of Four” (PGR)
1.20 Gillette World Sports
1.50 close

SBS
10.00 English at Home "Paying Tax"
10.30 Italian Soccer Highlights
11.30 World Soccer
12.30 Anne’s International Kitchen
1.00 Italia News (no subtitles)
1.30 Greek News (ditto)
2.00 The Parrot (Netherlands)
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Cutting Edge “A Dangerous Liaison” (UK)
4.30 MC Tee Vee
5.00 The Noise
6.00 World News
6.30 Vox Populi
7.00 Mittel Europa (pt 1; France/English)
8.00 Coca-Cola League Match of the Day
9.00 Movie “Welcome” (Germany)
10.30 Taking a Stand (Ireland/English)
11.00 Movie Show
11.30 Movie “Hero of Babylon” (PGR/Italy)
1.00 close

GTS4/BKN7
7.00 Turn Round Australia
7.30 Hour of Power
8.30 Sportsworld
10.30 Australian Grand Prix
5.30 Cross Country
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Simpsons "Dog of Death"
7.00 Major Dad "Standing Trial"
7.30 The Main Event
8.30 Movie “Young Guns II” (AO)
10.30 Movie “Hollywood Hot Tubs” (AO)
12.15 Epilogue
12.20 close

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Sydney, 4 October 1970, The Sun-Herald. It was back when ATN7 would have a lunch break during the coverage of the Hardie-Ferodo 500.

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