Classic TV Listings

Melbourne TV listings: Monday, August 11, 1986
from The Age

ABV2
8.00 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
8.30 Sesame Street
9.30 Play School
10.00 Hunter
10.20 Secondary Media
10.40 20th Century History
11.00 The Media
11.20 Lower Primary Science
11.40 Australian Studies
12.00 A New World (for Sure)
12.30 Middle English
1.00 ABC News
1.05 A Vous la France
1.30 Music Time
1.50 For the Juniors
2.07 The World at War
3.00 Sesame Street
3.35 Adventures of Paddington
4.00 Play School
4.30 New Adventures of Blinky Bill
4.55 Willo the Wisp
5.00 Voltron, Defender of the Universe
5.25 Roger Ramjet
5.30 Fast Forward (7 of 12)
6.00 Max Headroom
6.30 Danger Mouse
6.35 Doctor Who (part 4 of “Planet of the Daleks”)
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Yes, Prime Minister (premiere)
8.00 Mother & Son
8.30 Four Corners (ABC News at 9.20)
9.30 Pot Black
10.15 The Burrows Collection “Wynton Marsalis”
11.15 Jane Eyre
11.45 close

HSV7
7.00 Mister Ed
7.30 Huckleberry Hound
8.00 Tom & Jerry
8.30 Adventures of Gulliver
9.00 Science International
9.30 TV Education
10.00 Romper Room
10.55 Home Update
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “The Biggest Bundle of Them All”
2.00 Falcon Crest
3.00 Knots Landing
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 Doctor in Charge
6.00 Gimme a Break!
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Day by Day
7.30 Sons and Daughters
8.30 Hunter
9.30 The Equalizer
10.30 Newsworld
11.00 Ironside
12.00 News Overnight

GTV9
5.30 Golf: PGA Tournament (from Toledo, OH)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 General Hospital
11.00 The Sullivans
11.30 National Nine Morning News
12.00 Midday with Ray Martin
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.30 Young and the Restless
3.30 Here’s Lucy
4.00 C’mon Kids
5.00 Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Happy Days
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Flying Doctors
8.30 Dynasty
9.30 The Colbys
10.00 News
10.35 Hart to Hart
11.35 The Young Doctors
12.35 Movie “The Touch”
2.15 Movie “3.10 to Yuma”
4.00 Movie “Okinawa”
5.10 Bonanza

ATV10
6.00 Daybreak
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 Fat Cat & Friends
9.30 And Mother Makes Three
10.00 Another World
11.00 Good Morning Melbourne
12.00 Movie “The Other Love”
2.00 Ten Eyewitness News
2.30 Carson’s Law
3.30 Hogan’s Heroes
4.00 Off the Dish
4.28 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World!
5.00 Good Times
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 David Johnston Collection
8.30 Movie “Kramer v. Kramer”
10.30 Ten Eyewitness News
10.40 Golden Years of Television
12.00 Hotel
1.00 Wyatt Earp
1.30 close

SBS
4.30pm Kaleidoscope
5.00 Zora & Her Gang (Germany)
5.30 The Electric Company (US)
6.00 Soccer: National League highlights
7.00 World News
7.30 Sex Matters (2 of 6; UK)
8.15 Sneak Preview
8.30 Guest Workers (2 of 6; Greek)
9.15 Superstars (2 of 6; France)
9.30 Movie “Cry of the Wounded” (India; in Hindi)
11.55 Vox Populi
12.25 close

Note:

The paper says that Nine relayed its golf broadcast from ABC in the US, listing commentators Jim McKay, Jack Whitaker and Bob Rosburg. Isn’t that strange?

why is it strange?

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Ten Eyewitness News at 2pm. Who would be watching it at that time of the day?

people not into Days Of Our Lives

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It’s​ so strange that Nine didn’t have its own commentators for the broadcast, and preferred to air the entire telecast from ABC instead. Maybe any of the members of the sports team didn’t want to be up so early in the morning!

I guess it’s cheaper. Also it’s 5.30am and probably not a huge audience (and it’s only golf :wink: )

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Nothing strange as all about that, it most likely would’ve been hosted by a member of the WWOS team, perhaps Ian Chappell who often hosted golf telecasts in the 80s and 90s, either on location or in the studio.

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Stay at home Mums, old Grandmas.

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Outside of some marquee sporting events, eg. the Olympics, I don’t think any Australia network would’ve invested in sending over a commentary team.

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Same with their US Open tennis coverage until the late 90s when they took the CBS coverage save for the final.

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I don’t think that was the norm for tennis. Nine would send their own commentary for US Open and Wimbledon.

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You could easily see why Ten was no 1 in news then. Their investment was massive in news.

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Definitely for Wimbledon but often the Australian voices wouldn’t be heard if at all in the 90s until the latter stages of the tournament other than for intros, outros and maybe in a rain delay.

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Melbourne TV listings: Monday, April 13, 1998 (Easter Monday)
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 A World of Difference
6.30 Australian Environmental Studies
7.00 Taking Care of Business
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Kipper
8.10 Noddy
8.20 Magic Mountain
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Adventures of Spot
9.30 Play School
10.00 Bananas in Pyjamas
10.25 Pingu
10.30 Postman Pat
10.45 Art Attack
11.00 Ghostwriter
11.30 Earthfasts
11.55 Little Lulu
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Quantum
1.00 Landline
2.00 Revolting Dogs
2.30 Athletics: The Stawell Gift 1998
4.30 Basketball: Women’s National League (preliminary final)
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Great Mysteries & Myths of the 20th Century
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Two Fat Ladies
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Media Watch
9.30 Sometime, Never
10.00 ABC News Late Edition
10.05 McFeast Live
11.05 English Premier League
12.00 Australia Television News
12.25 One Foot in the Grave
1.00 Movie “Some Girls Do”
2.30 Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century
3.00 Growing Awareness
3.30 Chemistry
4.00 Reading Writing Roadshow
4.30 French in Action
5.00 Visual Arts
5.30 Italianissimo

HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Beast Wars
7.30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
8.00 Berenstain Bears
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Growing Up Wild
9.30 The Golden Girls
10.00 Dateline NBC
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “The Court Jester”
2.00 AFL: Brisbane Lions v. Melbourne, followed by Carlton v. Essendon at 5pm
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Heartbeat
9.45 Talking Footy
10.45 Strange But True? Encounters
11.15 Seven Nightly News
11.45 Sightings
12.45 NBC Today
2.45 Telemall Shopping
3.45 One West Waikiki
4.35 Thunder Alley
5.10 Name Your Adventure
5.35 Homeboys in Outer Space

GTV9
6.00 Golf: US Masters (from Augusta)
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 In the House
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 AIC Autumn Racing Carnival
4.00 Spellbinder 2: Land of the Dragon Lord
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Step by Step
5.30 Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Friends
8.00 Suddenly Susan
8.30 Veronica’s Closet
9.00 Spin City
9.30 IMT (guests include Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler)
11.00 Nightline
11.30 Diagnosis Murder
12.30 Wings
1.00 ALF
1.30 Entertainment Tonight
2.00 Celebrity Home Shopping
3.00 Movie “Blood River”
5.00 48 Hours

ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney & Friends
7.00 Extreme Dinosaurs
7.30 Beetleborgs
8.00 Spider-Man
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Bold and the Beautiful
1.30 FCTV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Judge Judy
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Breakers
5.00 Ten News
6.00 The Nanny
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
8.30 Movie “L.A. Story”
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 World Superbike Championship (from Donnington, UK)
2.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 Life in the Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Marilyn Hickey
5.30 This is Your Day

SBS
6.00 Weatherwatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale
7.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.55 Mandarin News
8.30 Das Journal
9.00 Le Journal
9.40 Weatherwatch & Music
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Indonesian News
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Oto Polska
12.30 Movie “The Captain from Koepenick” (Germany)
2.00 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Tales from a Suitcase
4.30 ICAM: Indigenous Cultural Affairs Magazine
5.00 Glenroe (Ireland)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.20 Rewind Australia
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Tutti!
8.00 Soccer: Ericcson Cup
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Cave of the Golden Rose II (Italy; part 1)
11.10 Fine Cut “The Betrayal”
12.30 Movie “A Silent Traveller” (Netherlands)
2.00 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music

I think that Nine took its golf coverage of the Masters from CBS. Is that correct?

Friends was on its second year of its amazing run on Nine, pulling around two million viewers every Monday. Every comedy which immediately followed Friends also became a de facto ratings hit.

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I think the Stawell Gift has been passed around all networks except SBS over the years.

For many years though its coverage was a co-production between HSV7 and BTV6 in Ballarat

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Today’s TV: 8.4.1962, Perth

Source: TV Week

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Today’s TV: 9.4.1984, Adelaide.

Guy Blackmore joins Graeme Goodings at Eyewitness News

Source: The Advertiser

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Melbourne/regional Victoria TV listings: Tuesday, April 13, 1999
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 Business
6.30 Study Skills
7.00 Preserving the Legacy
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Busy World of Richard Scarry
8.25 Adventures of Spot
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Bananas in Pyjamas
9.30 Play School
10.00 Rupert
10.25 Small Stories
10.30 Art Attack
10.45 Mortimer & Arabel
11.00 Jim Henson’s The Storyteller
11.25 Felix the Cat
11.50 Feral TV
11.55 Plasmo
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Australian Story
1.00 Four Corners
1.45 Media Watch
2.00 The Bill
3.00 Sesame Street
3.25 Koki
3.30 Play School
4.00 Kitu & Woofl
4.05 Little Bear
4.30 Animal Crackers
4.55 Feral TV
5.00 Secret World of Alex Mack
5.25 Wildlife
5.30 Rugrats
5.55 Freaky Stories
6.00 Heartbreak High
6.30 Bush Tucker Man: Stories of Survival
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Inside Story
9.30 Foreign Correspondent (ABC News at 10.25)
10.30 Lateline
11.05 People’s Century
12.00 Lost for Words
12.30 Australia Television News
1.00 Movie “House of Secrets”
2.35 Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century
3.00 Against All Odds
3.30 Visual Arts
4.00 Australian Studies
4.30 Visual Arts
5.00 English Have a Go
5.30 A World of Difference

HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Goof Troop
8.00 Adventures of Mickey & Donald
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A*mazing
9.30 The Village
10.00 Denise
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Hopscotch”
2.30 Ricki Lake
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 I Dream of Jeannie
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 All-Star Squares
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Better Homes & Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors (Oz Lotto at 8.28)
8.30 All Saints
9.30 The Practice
10.30 The Late Report
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 AFL: highlights of round 3
1.00 NBC Today
3.00 Telemall Shopping
4.00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
4.45 Animal Rescue
5.10 Beyond 2000

GTV9
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Hi-5
9.30 Hardcastle & McCormick
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 Jamie Foxx
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 Price is Right
3.30 Married
 with Children
4.00 Ship to Shore
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Full House
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 A Current Affair
7.00 Sale of the Century (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8.00 Drew Carey Show
8.30 Water Rats
9.30 Stingers
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Star Trek: Voyager
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Movie “Accidental Hero”
3.45 Victor Paul Home Shopping
4.45 High Adventure
5.00 20/20

ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Sports Tonight
7.00 Spider-Man
7.30 Pokémon
8.00 Count Duckula
8.30 In the Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Roseanne Show
1.00 Judge Joe Brown
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Judge Judy
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 The Simpsons
7.30 Party of Five
8.30 Dawson’s Creek
9.30 Melrose Place
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 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

SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.20 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.15 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 Business Report
12.30 Movie “Fantomas” (France)
1.55 Zahor (France; letters and memories of families lost in the Holocaust)
2.20 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sport
4.00 Sportswoman
4.30 More Great Vegetarian Dishes of the World
5.00 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Front Up
8.00 A Generation Twice Removed (Germany)
8.45 A Classroom in Theresienstadt
9.30 Movie “Octopus: The Pact” (Italy)
11.20 Hotline
11.35 Fine Cut
1.05 Movie “Requiem for Dominic” (Austria)
2.35 temporary close
5.00 Weatherwatch & Music
5.30 Japanese Music

Channel 31
1.30pm RMIT Lecture
2.30 Fish Cam
6.00 Living Word
6.30 Slovenian Magazine
7.00 Entre Todos
7.30 UK Today
8.00 Eastern Newsbeat
9.00 C’est La Vie
9.30 Wired
10.00 VAFA Football League
11.00 In Pit Lane
11.30 Fish Cam

Regional Victoria
Prime
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Goof Troop
8.00 Adventures of Mickey & Donald
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A*mazing
9.30 Name Your Adventure
10.00 Infobreak International
10.30 Wheel of Fortune
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Hopscotch”
2.30 Ricki Lake
3.30 Disney Adventures
4.00 Wipeout
4.30 I Dream of Jeannie
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 All-Star Squares (Local News in Albury)
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30 Better Homes & Gardens
8.00 The Great Outdoors (Oz Lotto at 8.28)
8.30 All Saints
9.30 The Practice
10.30 The Late Report
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 AFL: highlights of round 3
1.00 Suzanne Paul Home Shopping
2.30 TVSN Shopping (to 6am)

WIN
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 WIN Today
9.30 Telemall Shopping
10.00 Hi-5
10.30 National Nine Morning News
11.00 Jamie Foxx
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12.00 Days of Our Lives
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 What’s Cooking?
3.00 Price is Right
3.30 Married
 with Children
4.00 Ship to Shore
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Sale of the Century
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
6.00 WIN News
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 A Current Affair (Keno at 7.29)
7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
8.00 Drew Carey Show
8.30 Water Rats
9.30 Stingers
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Star Trek: Voyager
12.00 Late Show with David Letterman
1.00 Entertainment Tonight
1.30 Movie “Accidental Hero”
3.45 Victor Paul Home Shopping
4.45 High Adventure
5.00 20/20

Ten Victoria
Simulcasts ATV10’s full schedule

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When did seven rest Sunrise and axe 11AM?