highlights of that day:
- two “talent” shows - Pot Luck on Ten and Have a Go on Seven.
- The Italian Open tennis final shown on Nine
- Say G’day, hosted by Greg Evans on Nine up against his old show Perfect Match. The show did not last the year.
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In case people were wondering no the Rugby League on NQTV that night wasn’t a delayed Sunday Game, but rather a midweek Panasonic Cup Match played between the Broncos and Parramatta from Townsville (which the Broncos won en-route to winning the final cup played as a midweek tournament, it reverted to pre-season the next year).
The Rugby League on 9 at 11AM was the Schoolboys Arrive Alive Cup (as it was known then, now it’s the GIO Schoolboys Cup, of which the semis and final get aired on Fox, a far cry from when schoolboys games were shown weekly from the early 80’s). The Motor Racing afterwards would have been from the ill fated Procar Championship Series, meaning it would have been either Nations Cup (GT Racing), V8 Brutes (Ute Racing) or Production Cars (the Formula 3 championship were shown on Speedweek on SBS). Just which of these categories from Wakefield Park in Goulburn were shown I couldn’t tell you.
AFL Games on Ten were Carlton vs Melbourne in the afternoon (the 2nd last game played at Princes Park for men’s premiership points, same 2 sides met mid season in 2005 for the last men’s game) and Sydney vs Essendon at night which was a nationwide 10 telecast from the Olympic Stadium (I remember Fox getting Bulldogs vs North as that was the last game for Bulldog full back Matthew Croft).
RU on 7 amongst the Olympic commitments would have been a tri-nations game between the Springboks and Wallabies won by the home team 23-19 at Kings Park Durban (a photo of which is my wallpaper on my laptop) clinching the tri-nations for themselves in the process. Unfortunately I can’t find what was the ABC Sydney Rugby game that afternoon (NOT a Shute Shield game because that was doubling as a reserves trophy, that was one of the years where a brewery sponsor provided the naming rights to the cup).
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I almost forgot about Channel Nine showing Schoolboys Cup rugby league matches in the Early/Mid 2000s, thanks for refreshing that memory! 
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Today’s TV: 20.5.1988, Western Australia.
The official opening of NEW10, Perth, followed by the 24-hour Olympic Telethon
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A friend has just sent me a screenshot of your post. My heartfelt thanks for your kind words. I am absolutely chuffed up here in my retirement in the hills behind Byron Bay. Jacqueline Lee Lewes.
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I’ll resist the urge to fanboy but reading your columns in the SMH in the 1980s ignited my interest in the media and set me on an interesting path. I actually looked forward to going to school on a Monday morning knowing the SMH was there waiting for me. Your work is missed. Thank you so much for posting!
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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, May 21, 1985
from The Age
ABV2
8.00 Sesame Street
9.00 Mr. Squiggle & Friends
9.30 Play School
10.00 For the Juniors
10.20 Celebrations
10.44 The Media
11.00 Writing
11.20 Infinity Ltd.
11.40 Social Science
12.00 A New World [for Sure]
12.30 Open File
1.00 Fighter Pilot
1.30 Barbara’s World of Horses & Ponies
1.55 My Favorite Martian’s Cartoon Show
2.15 Larry the Lamb
2.30 Casper & the Angels
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Adventures of Paddington
4.00 Play School
4.30 Wind in the Willows
4.50 Spacewatch
5.00 Out There
5.30 Ulysses 31
5.55 Come & Get It
6.00 Inspector Gadget
6.30 ABC National
7.30 Rumpole of the Bailey
8.25 Four Corners “Tiger Tiger”
9.20 Bird of Prey
10.15 Rock Arena
11.15 Boxing: 1985 Oceania Championships
12.20 close
HSV7
6.00 Daywatch
7.00 The Flintstone Frolics
7.30 Mickey & Donald
8.00 Leave It to Beaver
8.30 Jeannie
9.00 Father Dear Father in Australia
9.30 Snake Gully with Dad & Dave
10.00 Romper Room
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Kissin’ Cousins”
1.55 Life in the Southern Seas
3.00 Cop Shop
4.00 Wombat
4.30 Now You See It
5.00 Wheel of Fortune
5.30 New Price is Right (final)
6.00 Neighbours
6.30 Seven National News
7.00 Day by Day
7.30 A Country Practice
8.30 Football: Geelong v. Norwood
11.00 Newsworld
11.30 Hallelujah!
12.00 News Overnight
GTV9
6.00 King Leonardo & His Short Subjects
6.25 Go Health
6.30 Richie Rich
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
10.00 Another World
11.00 Here’s Lucy
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 General Hospital
4.00 Think Again
4.30 Ossie Ostrich Video Show
5.00 Happy Days
5.30 Blankety Blanks
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Willesee
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Cosby Show
8.00 Diff’rent Strokes
8.30 The Love Boat
9.30 Ernie Sigley Show
10.45 National Nine News
10.55 Possession
12.05 Movie “The Boss’ Son”
2.00 Movie “Thornwell”
3.50 Movie “Terror in the Sky”
5.10 Big Valley
ATV10
6.00 Felix the Cat
6.05 Popeye
6.30 McHale’s Navy
7.00 Good Morning Australia
9.00 All My Children
10.00 That Girl
10.30 Fat Cat & Friends
11.00 Good Morning Melbourne
12.00 After Noon
1.30 Movie “Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”
3.30 Graham Kennedy’s Blankety Blanks
4.00 Simon Townsend’s Wonder World!
5.00 Hogan’s Heroes
5.30 Perfect Match
6.00 Ten Eyewitness News
7.00 MAS*H
7.30 Benny Hill Show
8.00 Robin’s Nest
8.30 Prisoner
9.30 Dallas
10.30 Ten Eyewitness News
10.40 Basektball: National League highlights
11.40 Paper Chase
12.40 Merv Griffin Show
1.40 Wyatt Earp
2.10 close
SBS (0/28)
11.00 Cartoons
11.10 People You Meet
11.30 Issues ‘85
12.15 She Wears the Pants
1.15 Wolves’ Cry (Greece)
2.15 close
5.30 Mystery of the Seventh Road (Netherlands)
6.00 Kulture Shock
7.00 World News
7.30 Aegean Sounds
8.00 Oshin (Japan)
8.30 Kamouraska (Canada)
9.30 Movie “The Secret of Nikola Tesla” (in Croatian and English)
11.20 Soccer: TBA
12.35 close
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Surely I can’t be the only one here who thinks that programming listing from 2000 has a lot more appealing content than anything the networks put to air across more channels on a typical Tuesday night these days?
I guess I’d be on Nine for the early evening lineup and probably Seven for The Great Outdoors, but Going Home or Better Homes & Gardens (well, it was the Noni Hazlehurst era) at 7.30pm + All Saints or Water Rats at 8.30pm: What to watch and what to tape for later viewing?
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I would have definitely watched All Saints and then Above The Law. Even though Above The Law was a bit of a dud soap, I still liked it.
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I’d have watched Charmed and later recorded/watched Buffy and Voyager. I reckon I could watch any of those again today and enjoy them.
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Melbourne TV listings: Saturday, May 28, 1994
from The Age
ABV2
6.00 Rage
7.30 All in a Day’s Work
8.00 The Bottom Line
9.00 Everybody’s Business
9.30 Discovering Psychology
10.00 Australian Environmental Studies
10.30 Aboriginal Studies
11.00 Death on the St. Lawrence
11.30 Gardening Australia
12.00 Movie “Jack Ahoy”
1.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
2.00 Saturday Afternoon Sport (2.00 VFL: Werribee v. Sandringham (School Sport at 3.15); 4.45 Sports News; 5.00 Netball: 1994 Women’s National League)
6.00 The Family Album
6.55 Consuming Passions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Locomotion (ABC News at 8.25)
8.30 The Bill (ABC News at 9.20)
9.30 Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century
10.00 Screen Two “Dead Romantic”
11.30 Screen Two “102 Boulevard Hausmann”
12.40 Australia Television News
1.15 Rage (to 8am)
HSV7
6.00 Cross Country
6.30 Dastardly & Muttley
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9.30 Saved by the Bell
10.00 Video Smash Hits
12.00 Movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
2.45 Movie “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”
5.00 Rex Hunt’s Fishing Australia
5.30 Seven Nightly News
6.00 AFL: highlights of Essendon v. Geelong and Collingwood v. Hawthorn
7.30 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
8.28 Tattslotto
8.30 Movie “A Woman Named Jackie”
11.45 Movie “Ned Kelly”
1.45 The Champions
2.40 Movie “The Inheritors”
4.10 Movie “Better Late Than Never”
GTV9
6.00 World Sports Special
6.30 Motor Racing: 1994 Valvoline World Touring Car Championships highlights
7.00 C’mon Kids
7.30 Pugwall’s Summer (repeat)
8.00 Barney & Friends
8.30 The Zone
9.00 What’s Up Doc?
11.00 Lawn Bowls: Jack High Tournament
12.00 The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1.00 Nine’s Wide World of Sports
5.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat; includes Keno at 5.59)
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Hey Hey It’s Saturday!
8.30 Movie “El Dorado”
11.00 News
11.05 Movie “Stir Crazy”
1.20 Late Show with David Letterman
2.20 Movie “Barbarella”
4.05 Barney Miller
4.35 Survival
5.00 Kenneth Copeland
ATV10
6.00 Take 40
7.00 Bobby’s World
7.30 Mission Top Secret
8.00 Biker Mice from Mars
8.30 Ren & Stimpy
9.00 Video Hits
11.00 Live It Up-Weekend
12.00 Basketball: NBL and NBA
2.00 Yan Can Cook
2.30 World of Audubon “Battle for the Great Plains”
3.30 Eight is Enough
4.30 Little House on the Prairie
5.30 Unsolved Mysteries
6.30 The Good Life
7.00 Brush Strokes
7.30 Jackie Onassis: An Intimate Portrait (hosted by Anne Fulwood)
8.30 Murder, She Wrote
9.30 Columbo
11.00 Ten Eyewitness News
11.30 Sports Tonight
12.00 NBL: Brisbane Bullets v. Sydney Kings
2.00 Just for the Record
2.30 Movie “You’re Only Young Once”
4.00 Dallas
5.00 Hour of Power
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
11.00 The Journal
11.30 (Nightly) Business Report
12.00 Pasta All’Italiana
12.30 Movie “Susanna Cream Cake” (Italy)
2.00 Basketball: Australian Boomers v. George Washington University highlights
3.30 The Movie Show
4.00 Nomad
4.30 Candle on the Hill
5.30 World Soccer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Dateline
8.00 Today’s Gourmet
8.30 The Investigator (Germany)
9.30 Movie “Tiger in the Smoke” (UK)
11.05 Eat Carpet
12.05 English at Work
12.35 Movie “The Woman from the Hotel” (Canada)
2.10 close
It’s strange to see that Ten wasn’t airing a 5pm bulletin on weekends at the time.
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This was about the time Ten first axed it’s local news on weekends. Oddly they had a national bulletin at 11.00pm? Weird.
I think they launched the National 5PM sometime in 1995?
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I was checking the Sydney Morning Herald today and the 5pm weekend bulletin was launched in early September 1994, anchored by Sandra Sully.
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Does anyone know when the axed the local news? Was it early 1994?
Imagine if Mediaspy was around back then lol
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Southern Cross Ten in regional Victoria screened Chris Conroy’s Leisureworld at 8.30am instead of Ren and Stimpy. I’m sure that cartoon didn’t go down too well with the conservative rural viewers there. Also Take 40 did not last long at Ten, it was axed a month later, replaced in its 5.30pm Sunday first run timeslot by the Wonderful World of Disney, the first time Disney has aired outside of Channel 7 and TCN9.
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Canberra TV Listings: Sunday, May 29, 1994
from The Canberra Times
ABC
1.00am Rage
8.00 Couch Potato
9.00 Ballzup!
10.00 Saturday League Highlights 1994
11.00 Highway with Harry Secombe
11.35 Credo
12.00pm Landline
1.00 Review
1.30 Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross
6.00 A Most Remarkable Planet
6.55 Export Australia
7.00 ABC News
7.30 Middlemarch
8.25 ABC News
8.30 True Stories: The Great Pyramid, Gateway to the Stars
9.30 Growing Rich
10.25 Compass
11.25 The Last Emperor
12.15am Blood and Honey
12.30 Australian Television International News
1.00 GP
2.00 Special: Chez Francis, an evening with Francis Poulenc
3.15 Quentin Blake
3.35 I Love Lucy
Ten Capital
5.00am Hour of Power
6.00 Mass for You at Home
6.30 Swordfish
7.00 Captain Zed and the Zee Zone
7.30 Doug
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Video Hits
11.00 Beadles About
11.30 Meet the Press
12.00pm Sunday Basketball (NBL)
2.30 Healthy Wealthy and Wise
3.30 Rugby: Queensland v Ireland from Ballymore in Brisbane
5.00 Coca Cola Take 40 TV
6.00 Capital Eyewitness News
6.30 Baywatch
7.30 Beverly Hills 90210
8.30 Movie: White Men Can’t Jump
10.50 Ten Eyewitness News
11.20 Sports Tonight
11.50 Energiser World Cup Power Play
12.20am Meet the Press
12.50 Close
WIN
6.00am Turn Round Australia
6.30 Body Mind and Spirit
7.00 The Curiosity Show
7.30 C’mon Kids
8.00 Business Sunday
9.00 Sunday
11.00 Wide World of Sports
12.00pm The Footy Show (NRL)
1.00 Fish
1.30 Rescue 911
2.00 Our World: Along the Tracks with Malcolm Douglas
3.00 It’s Country Today (country music programme)
4.00 Sports Sunday
5.58 WIN News Update
6.00 National Nine News
6.30 Sunday Night Football (NRL) Round 11
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 Movie: The Godfather III
12.00am Spanish Formula One Grand Prix
2.00 Indianapolis 500 Indy Car Race
Prime
6.00am Sing Me A Rainbow
6.30 Sky Commanders
7.00 The Mouse Factory
7.30 Zoo Life with Jack Hanna
8.00 Now You See It
8.30 Runaway Island
9.00 Sportsworld
1.00pm Cross Country
1.30 Earth Beat
2.00 AFL Brisbane Bears v North Melbourne
5.00 The Deadly Australians
6.00 Prime 6 O’Clock News
6.30 Talk to the Animals
7.30 Home Improvement
8.00 Grace Under Fire
8.30 Movie: Wedlock
10.40 Special: Hollywood Heartstoppers
12.30am NBC Today
1.30 Meet the Press (NBC)
2.30 Movie: The Bridge at Remagen
4.35 Woops!
5.05 Special: The Mystery of Morse
SBS
8.56am Oto Polska (Poland)
9.30 Apo Tin Ellada (Greece)
10.00 Italia News (Italy)
10.30 The History of Soccer - The People’s Game
11.30 Thus Spake the City (Greece)
12.00pm Young Spirits of Asia (Hong Kong)
12.30 Movie: Judo Saga II (Japan)
1.55 Korov Classics
2.30 Dateline
3.30 Documentary: How Could She.
4.30 English At Work
5.00 Documentary: Isamu Noguchi
6.00 Imagine
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 Vox Populi
7.30 Routes of Rhythm
8.30 Opera Stories
9.30 Movie: Year of the Turtle (Germany)
11.05 Movie: Generale Della Rovere (Italy)
1.15am Close
- Capital had its own Eyewitness News bulletin at 6pm as Ten did not have such.
- Prime had its Canberra-based 6 O’Clock News instead of Seven Nightly News. Not sure about other Prime NSW markets.
- Grace Under Fire (US sitcom starring Brett Butler) was on Prime, it did not last long in its timeslot and was pulled after three episodes.
- It’s Country Today aired on WIN it was a regional-produced programme (not sure by who), NBN also aired it. In Melbourne it screened on community channel 31.
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