not much. She went back to Ten a few years later.
EDIT: I forgot. She did host Body And Soul on Nine, a weekly show about health and fitness. I don’t really remember it but it was on Saturday afternoons and did not last long.
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Live At Five was also known as Dead At Six because of the show’s dismal ratings. The miracle was that National Nine News in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane continued to outrate the competition with such a poor lead in.
I remember being excited when it was announced. I’d heard about these American afternoon news/magazine shows on Entertainment This Week and big deal was made in the press about the signing of Terry Willesee and Jo Pearson to the network. Ten News had been strong at the time and I think Nine thought getting Pearson to the network would put a stop to the momentum they were gaining at 6pm. The networks were throwing around a lot of money at that time. Nine made a huge investment for very little return. I didn’t mind Live At Five but the cut down version, Eye On Australia, was pretty awful. I drifted back to Seven’s game shows after the novelty wore off.
Graham Kennedy’s News Show must’ve highlighted the ratings for Live At Five on a week when the show was competitive. I don’t recall ratings being shown when the show was failing badly.
I remember Jane Kennedy was a reporter on that show. She went on to bigger and better things- The Late Show, Frontline as ambitious uber bitch reporter Brooke Vandenberg, Working Dog productions and currently presenting Triple M Drive with Mick Molloy.
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I probably watched The Munsters on Ten 
I always looked forward to the ratings wrap up on Graham Kennedy’s show on Wednesdays. That and the brief write ups in Thursdays papers were really our only source for ratings info. None of this daily top 20 stuff…
And what a fall from grace for Perfect Match. A few years earlier it was rating 20s at 5.30! The sort of numbers that prime time shows would have killed for. By 1988 it’s down to single digits.
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Loved The Munsters and The Addams Family. Ian Turpie’s Press Your Luck didn’t have a long enough life on Australian television. I preferred it to Wheel but that was probably because I enjoyed yelling out with the studio audience about the whammy.
Kennedy’s show was must watch every Wednesday for those snippets. Ratings info was hard to come by in those days. You’d see numbers in the odd story in the entertainment section of the newspapers. I’d head to the library when I got to school every Monday morning to see the weekly ratings info in the brief report the Sydney Morning Herald would do in The Guide section.
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Yes. Totally this. I loved watching that show. Partially because it a late night treat from my mum, partially because I didn’t get the baudy humour at that age, and, of course, ratings.
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Canberra Evening TV Guide: Sunday 8th February 2004:
6.00 pm: THE ARCTIC - PART 1: ICELAND AND GREENLAND
6.30 pm: THE EINSTEIN FACTOR
7.00 pm: ABC NEWS
7.30 pm: WILD AUSTRALASIA: WILD DOWN UNDER
8.25 pm: ABC NEWS
8.30 pm: DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS
9.55 pm: COMPASS: BOARDING HOUSE BLUES
10.30 pm: CRITICAL MASS
11.00 pm: REZA: SHOOTING BACK
11.50 pm: THE SINS: ANGER
6.00 pm: THE SIMPSONS
6.30 pm: AMERICAN IDOL
7.30 pm: THE HOTHOUSE
8.30 pm: Movie: CHARLIE’S ANGELS
10.30 pm: TEN LATE NIGHT NEWS
11.00 pm: SPORTS TONIGHT
11.30 pm: VIDEO HITS UNCUT PRESENTS THE COCA-COLA LIVE N LOCALMUSIC SPECIAL
6.00 pm: SEVEN NEWS
6.30 pm: Movie: TOY STORY 2
8.30 pm: Movie: UNBREAKABLE
10.45 pm: Movie: FAME
6.00 pm: NATIONAL NINE NEWS SUNDAY
6.30 pm: ONE DAY CRICKET - 2ND FINAL: AUSTRALIA V INDIA
10.00 pm: Movie: UNDER SIEGE
6.00 pm: TOYOTA WORLD SPORT
6.30 pm: WORLD NEWS
7.00 pm: INSIDE AUSTRALIA: NGANGKARI WAY
7.30 pm: DRAMA SERIES: LES MISERABLES
8.30 pm: LOST WORLDS: THE LIFE OF BUDDHA (PART 1)
9.30 pm: Movie: EAST WEST
11.35 pm: CINEMA CLASSIC - COMEDY: AREN’T WE WONDERFUL
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Corryong is on the Victorian side of the border
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Oh… yeah… i knew that… i was just testing you all… 
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, October 8, 1988
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
9.00 The Factory
12.00 Rock Arena
1.15 Movie “Duck Soup”
2.25 Movie “Prince of Players”
4.00 Greatest American Hero
4.45 Sports Arena
6.00 ABC News
6.30 Countrywide
7.00 That’s Australia!
7.30 Upstairs, Downstairs
8.20 ABC News
8.30 Movie “Two for the Road”
10.10 The Sweeney
11.00 Rage
HSV7
6.00 Crusader Rabbit
6.10 Frankenstein Junior & the Impossibles
6.35 Atom Ant
7.00 Super Saturday
9.00 Saturday Morning Line
12.00 Movie “Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island”
2.00 Movie “Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion”
3.30 Movie “The Obliging Young Lady”
5.00/5.30 Get Smart
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 The World Around Us “Macquarie Marshes”
7.30 Probe (Tattslotto at 8.28)
8.30 Shout: The Story of Johnny O’Keefe
12.40 Movie “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man”
2.00 close
GTV9
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Cartoon Company
12.00 Burke’s Backyard
1.00 Wide World of Sports
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday
8.30 21 Jump Street (Keno at 9.29)
9.30 Miami Vice
10.30 News
10.35 Hollywood Beat
11.35 Golf: World Matchplay Golf (from Wentworth, UK)
1.30 Movie “The Angry Silence”
3.25 Movie “The Glass Menagerie”
5.25 The Young Doctors
ATV10
6.00 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Ridget Didge
7.30 Muppet Babies
8.00 Early Bird Show
12.00 Tennis: Queensland Open semifinals
5.00 Caulfield Guineas Day highlights
5.30 The Muppets
6.00 Ten News
6.30 Movie “The Neverending Story”
8.30 Movie “Pat & Mike”
10.30 Tennis: Queensland Open semifinals (cont’d)
1.00 Night Shift
5.00 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
5.30 Wall Street Journal Report
SBS
2.30pm Movie “The Mechanic of Happiness” (USSR)
4.00 Soldier’s Mass
4.30 Sinfonietta
5.00 Noah’s Ark (Spain)
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 World News
7.00 Floyd on France (UK)
7.30 Dateline
8.30 Movie “Paisa” (Italy)
10.40 Movie “Rickshaw Boy” (China)
12.35 close
What do I win? 
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Your choice of…
A complete set of tennis OR a lifetime’s supply of oxygen. 
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Illawarra Evening TV Guide - Saturday 29th October 2005:
6.00 pm: GO WILD!: BRITISH ISLES: A NATURAL HISTORY: REVOLUTION: PT 2
6.30 pm: GARDENING AUSTRALIA
7.00 pm: ABC NEWS
7.30 pm: BORN AND BRED: COMMUNITY SPIRITS
8.25 pm: ABC NEWS
8.30 pm: THE BILL
9.20 pm: ABC NEWS
9.25 pm: P.O.W.
10.15 pm: THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
11.50 pm: RAGE
6.00 pm: BUSH TUCKER MAN: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
6.30 pm: THE NEW INVENTORS
7.00 pm: MESSAGE STICK
7.30 pm: VIDEO LIVES
8.00 pm: AT THE MOVIES
8.30 pm: THE GLASS HOUSE
9.00 pm: THE NEW INVENTORS
9.30 pm: BUSH TUCKER MAN: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
10.00 pm: AUSTRALIAN STORY
10.30 pm: CATALYST
11.00 pm: STUDIO 22
11.30 pm: AT THE MOVIES
6.00 pm: DOWN UNDER
6.30 pm: WORLD NEWS AUSTRALIA
7.00 pm: TOYOTA WORLD SPORT
7.30 pm: AS IT HAPPENED. WORLD WAR 2 IN COLOUR
8.30 pm: IRON CHEF
9.15 pm: IN SIBERIA TONIGHT
10.00 pm: MOVIE - DRAMA. LEARNING TO LIE (LIEGEN LERNEN)
11.35 pm: SHORTS ON SCREEN
6.25 pm: ARABIC NEWS
7.00 pm: GREEK NEWS
8.00 pm: ITALIAN NEWS
8.35 pm: INDONESIAN NEWS
9.05 pm: MANDARIN NEWS
9.35 pm: FILIPINO NEWS
10.15 pm: JAPANESE NEWS
10.50 pm: GERMAN NEWS
11.20 pm: SPANISH NEWS
11.55 pm: ARABIC NEWS
6.00 pm: THE SIMPSONS
6.30 pm: Movie: MEN IN BLACK II
8.30 pm: Movie: CHARLIE’S ANGELS
10.30 pm: JOKER POKER
11.30 pm: KEEN EDDIE
6.00 pm: SEVEN NEWS
6.30 pm: HEARTBEAT
7.40 pm: ROSEMARY & THYME
8.45 pm: BRITISH DRAMA MYSTERY: JUDGE JOHN DEED - POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
10.45 pm: BRITISH DRAMA MYSTERY: RUTH RENDELL’S LAKE OF DARKNESS
6.00 pm: NATIONAL NINE NEWS SATURDAY
6.30 pm: AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO SHOW
7.30 pm: HEY HEY BY REQUEST
8.30 pm: Movie: LORD OF THE RINGS - THE TWO TOWERS
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who was listing the World News Channel??
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Today’s TV: 2.4.1969, Melbourne
Source: TV Week
Interesting ‘battle’ between The Addams Family on Nine and The Munsters on Seven
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Do you or anyone you know have the TV guide for Regional SA or specifically South East SA for Friday, August 1st 1986. I would love to know what was on TV the day I was born.
No sorry I actually have very few issues from 1986 and the ones I have are mostly Melbourne metro.
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That Neighbours promo is for episode 304, which aired 24/7/86 on Ten (almost a year before Scott and Charlene’s wedding). Are you sure it’s from November 87? If so, that would put TVW about 16 months behind Ten, meaning they had shown only six months worth of episodes in nearly two years.
Source: Neighbours Episode 0304 from 1986 - NeighboursEpisodes.com
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That wouldn’t surprise me.
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hmm… think about that: while almost all (if not all) of evening magazine program were failed in Aus, we still watch “Việt Nam Hôm Nay”* at 
every afternoon, #myfriends!
*Evening news/magaine show of “Auntie” VTV, it’s very successful