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Melbourne TV listings: Friday, June 5, 1998
from The Age

ABV2
6.00 Let’s Learn Japanese
6.30 Reading Writing Roadshow
7.00 Perspective
7.30 Teletubbies
8.00 Busy World of Richard Scarry
8.25 Hairy Maclary
8.30 Sesame Street
9.25 Pingu
9.30 Play School
10.00 More Than Words
10.15 Mathica’s Mathshop
10.30 Nature Watch Digest
10.40 Scientific Eye
11.00 Concepts in Mathematics
12.00 World at Noon
12.30 Lateline
1.00 Foreign Correspondent
2.00 Embassy
2.50 Consuming Passions
3.00 Sesame Street
3.55 Petals
4.00 Play School
4.30 Magic Mountain
4.40 The Forgotten Toys
4.50 The Morph Files
5.00 Hey Arnold!
5.25 The Trap Door
5.30 Wyrd Sisters
5.55 Once Upon a Time
6.00 Stateline
6.30 Gardening Australia
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 Good News Week
8.30 The Fragile Heart
9.35 What’s on ABC?
9.45 Tracey Takes on… “Money”
10.10 Birds of a Feather
10.40 ABC News
10.45 Netball: Commonwealth Bank Trophy
12.00 Order in the House
1.00 Australia Television News
1.30 Rage

HSV7
6.00 Sunrise
7.00 Mummies Alive!
7.30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
8.00 Around the World in 80 Dreams
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 A Country Practice
10.00 Witness
11.00 Eleven AM
12.00 Movie “Trapped in Silence”
2.00 Ricki Lake
3.00 Grace Under Fire
3.30 Power Rangers Turbo
4.00 A*mazing
4.30 Denise
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Seven Nightly News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home and Away
7.30/8.00 Home Improvement
8.30 AFL: Essendon v. Sydney
11.30 Seven Nightly News
12.00 Movie “Daughter of Darkness”
2.00 LAPD: Life on the Beat
2.30 NBC Today
4.30 Telemall Shopping
5.30 Amazing Stories “Mr. Magic”

GTV9
6.00 CNN World News
6.30 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
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 Young and the Restless
3.30 Perfect Strangers
4.00 Challenger
4.30 What’s Up Doc?
5.00 Welcome Back, Kotter
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 Burke’s Backyard
8.30 Movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Amazing Games
11.10 Tennis: French Open (men’s semifinals)
5.10 Entertainment Tonight
5.40 Outer Bounds (extreme adventures; this is the description given by the paper: I’m adding it because I didn’t know what was this show about… until today!)

ATV10
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style
6.30 Barney & Friends
7.00 Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
7.30 BAD: Bureau of Alien Detectors
8.00 Eek! the Cat
8.30 The Music Shop
9.00 Good Morning Australia
11.30 Ten News
12.00 Sally Jessy Raphael
1.00 Judge Judy
1.30 FCTV
2.30 Oprah Winfrey
3.30 Breakers
4.00 Silver Brumby
4.30 Bold and the Beautiful
5.00 Ten News
6.00 Battle of the Sexes
6.30 Neighbours
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Sliders
8.30 Skate: Rattle & Roll (1998 Skate TV Championship)
10.30 Ten News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Breakers
12.00 NBA Game of the Week
1.00 WWF Superstars
2.00 Telemall Shopping
3.00 Danoz Home Shopping
3.30 Aromapower
4.00 High Tide
5.00 This is Your Day
5.30 Jesus Television

SBS
6.00 Japanese News
6.30 Weatherwatch & Music
7.00 Telegiornale Italiano
7.35 Cantonese News
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 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Tzedek: The Holocaust (France; conclusion)
1.50 Weatherwatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 World Sports (repeat)
4.00 Insight
5.00 Chooof! (Spain)
5.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 More Great Vegetarian Dishes of the World
8.00 Soccer: World Cup Countdown
9.00 SBS World News at Nine
9.30 Movie “The Tit & the Moon” (Spain)
11.00 Hotline
11.25 The Head (US)
11.50 Movie “Keoma” (Italy)
1.30 close

Channel 31
5.30pm Mansfield’s Melbourne
6.00 Teaching Arabic
6.30 Romanian Program
7.00 Romanian Jurnal
7.30 Croatian Television Vukovar
8.30 Screened & Gleaned
9.30 Egyptian Program
10.30 Cabaret at the Ivy
11.00 The Comic Box
11.30 Girl Talk
12.00 BPM Australia
1.00 Queerzone
1.30 Fish Cam

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Ten doesn’t programme like it used to…

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Canberra TV Guide - Monday 17th September 2001

ABC:
Morning:
6.00 Lifelong Learning
6.30 Lifelong Learning
7.00 Children’s Programs
10.00 School’s Programs
10.15 Stage One
10.30 Numbers Count
10.45 On The Job
11.00 Vital Systems
11.15 Atoms Of Fire
11.30 Exploring The World Of Music
Afternoon:
12.00 World At Noon
12.30 Catalyst
1.00 Landline
1.30 Delia’s How To Cook
2.00 Parliament Question Time
3.00 Tweenies
3.20 Plonsters
3.25 Maisy
3.30 Play School
4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas
4.05 The Wombles
4.15 Bob The Builder
4.25 Animal Stories
4.30 Stickin’ Around
4.55 Little Monsters
5.00 CatDog
5.25 Fly Tales
5.30 The Saddle Club
5.55 Freaky Stories
Evening:
6.00 Something In The Air
6.30 Media Dimensions
7.00 ABC News
7.30 The 7.30 Report
8.00 The Savages
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 Backchat
9.30 BackBerner
10.00 The Fat
10.30 Lateline
11.00 Phoenix
11.50 Hostage
Overnight:
12.55 Parliament Question Time
1.55 Movie: The Riddle Of The Sands
3.35 Mosquito!
4.30 Lifelong Learning
5.00 Lifelong Learning
5.30 Lifelong Learning

SBS:
Morning:
6.00 WorldWatch
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
Afternoon:
12.00 Kalejdoskop
12.30 Movie: Christina
1.55 WeatherWatch & Music
3.00 TV Ed
3.30 ICAM
4.00 Global Village
4.30 World Sport
5.00 Newshour With Jim Lehrer
5.50 Hotline
Evening:
6.00 Global Village
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sport
7.30 Soccer
8.30 Pizza
9.00 Life Support
9.30 SBS World News Tonight
10.00 Movie: Shaolin Temple II
11.45 Movie: Poulpe Fiction
Overnight:
1.25 Temporary Close
5.00 WeatherWatch & Music
5.30 Japanese News

Prime:
Morning:
6.00 Sunrise
8.30 The Book Place
9.00 Home Shopping
10.30 Seven Morning News
11.00 Denise
Afternoon:
12.00 Movie: Chasing Secrets
2.00 Where The Heart Is
3.10 Passions
4.00 The Big Arvo
4.30 Home And Away - The Early Years
5.00 Hot Streak
5.30 Wheel Of Fortune
Evening:
6.00 Seven News
6.30 Today Tonight
7.00 Home And Away
7.30 The Weakest Link
8.30 Boston Public
9.30 Drama School
10.30 The Monday Dump With Roy And H.G
11.30 Seven Late News
Overnight:
12.00 Ricki Lake
1.00 Quantam Global Australia
2.00 Television Shopping Network

WIN:
Morning:
6.00 National Nine Early News
7.00 Today
9.00 Here’s Humphrey
9.30 Cushion Kids
9.35 Barney And Friends
10.00 Pacific Drive
10.30 Fresh
11.00 National Nine Morning News
11.30 Entertainment Tonight
Afternoon:
12.00 Days Of Our Lives
1.00 The Young And The Restless
2.00 The Pretender
3.00 Touched By An Angel
4.00 Escape Of The Artful Dodger
4.30 Mike, Lu & Og
5.00 Family Ties
5.30 Burgo’s Catch Phrase
Evening:
6.00 WIN News
6.30 National Nine News
7.00 A Current Affair
7.30 Friends
8.00 Malcolm In The Middle
8.28 Lotto
8.30 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
9.30 Changing Rooms
10.05 Airport
10.35 Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
11.35 Nightline
Overnight:
12.05 WIN News Late Edition
12.35 Late Show With David Letterman
1.35 Entertainment Tonight
2.05 Movie: The Glass Shield
4.00 Carson’s Law
5.00 20/20

Ten Capital:
Morning:
6.00 Sports Tonight
6.30 Aerobics Oz Style
7.00 Cheez TV
8.30 In The Box
9.00 Good Morning Australia With Bert Newton
11.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures
11.30 Ten’s 11.30 News
Afternoon:
12.00 Jerry Springer
1.00 Infomercial
1.30 Beauty And The Beast
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show
3.30 Neighbours
4.00 Totally Wild
4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful
5.00 The Simpsons
5.30 Neighbours
Evening:
6.00 Ten Capital News
7.00 Seinfeld
7.30 Sandra Sully Presents
8.30 Family Law
9.30 The Secret Life Of Us
10.30 Ten Late News
11.00 Sports Tonight
11.30 Motor Racing
Overnight:
1.30 Grown Ups
2.00 Temporary Close
4.00 Life In The Word
4.30 Kenneth Copeland
5.00 Life Today With James Robison
5.30 This Is Your Day With Benny Hinn

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Nearly 20 years ago, it used to be called TEN Capital in Canberra. I would have thought that in 2005, they have rebranded it as Southern Cross TEN (ACT)

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Victoria, Wednesday 5 June 1968
from TV Week

ABC
Schools programs weren’t listed by TV Week at the time
10.10-10.35 Play School
12.45 English by Television “Connie and the Burglars”
1.00 News (networked from Sydney)
1.05-1.10 This Week in Britain
3.20 Flowerpot Men “Garden Forks”
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Animal Parade
4.45 Magic Boomerang “A Visit from Grandma”
5.10 Lens on Lilliput
5.20 Doctor Who “The Underwater Menace” (pt 1)
5.45 Cartoon “Alphabet Song”
5.50 Donna Reed “The Boys in 309”
6.15 F Troop “From Karate with Love”
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 (Melbourne) This Week in Britain
(country) Regional News
7.00 News/Newsreel/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Not in Front of the Children “The Word” (A)
8.28 News in Brief
8.30 Wednesday Theatre Ballet “The Best of the Bolshoi” (pt 1)
9.30 Survey
10.10 News/Weather
10.20 Esther Waters “London Pride” (AO)
11.05 close

ATV0 Melbourne
10.00 Magic Circle Club
10.30 Little People
10.55 Interlude
11.00 Morning Magazine
noon Yarra Glen Races
5.00 Three Stooges
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 News/Sport/Weather
6.30 Gilligan’s Island
6.55 Waltons TV Windfall
7.00 Bewitched “Tabatha’s Cranky Spell”
7.30 Bonanza “Maestro Hoss”
8.30 Garrison’s Gorillas “The Big Lie”
9.30 Starlight Theatre “Thunder in the Sun”
12.05 Late News
12.35 close

HSV7 Melbourne
9.55 Romper Room
10.25 Charity Corner
10.30 Morning Movie “Father’s Dilemma”
11.50 Herald-Sun News
noon Get Smart
12.30 Motel
1.00 Casebook
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 People in Conflict
3.00 Marriage Confidential
3.30 Citizen James “Sit Down”
4.00 Mickey Mouse Club
4.30 Peter’s Fun Fair
5.00 Happy Club “Young Entertainer”
5.05 Wackiest Ship in the Army “Liberty was a Lady”
6.00 Green Acres “An Old-Fashioned Christmas”
6.30 News/Sport Report/Weather
7.00 Coles $6000 Question
7.30 Something Special (June Bromhill Show)
8.30 Movie of the Week “Top Secret Affair”
10.30 Late News
10.50 A Man Called Shenandoah “Muted Fifes, Muffled Drums” (A)
11.20 close

GTV9 Melbourne
6.30 Marvel Superheroes
7.00 Today
9.00 77 Sunset Strip “Collector’s Item” (A)
10.00 Nature Walkabout
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis “Three Million Coins in the Fountain”
noon Days of Our Lives
12.30 Channel 9 Theatre Matinee “That Wonderful Urge”
2.00 Tommy Hanlon
2.30 Everybody’s Talking
3.00 Divorce Court
3.30 The Unloved
4.00 Bugs Bunny
4.30 Superman
5.00 Phantaman
5.30 Addams Family “Gomez the Cat Burglar”
6.00 Bachelor Father “The Rescue of Rufus”
6.30 Television City News/Newsreel/Weather
7.00 Tommy Hanlon
7.30 Hunter “War Hawks”
8.27 VFL Computer Football Forecast
8.30 Ironside “Message from Beyond” (A)
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 Television City News
11.15 Thriller “Parasite Mansion” (A)
12.15 Epilogue
12.20 close

AMV4 Albury
12.30 Women’s News
12.40 Relax with Roma
12.45 Marriage Game
1.05 Recipe of the Week
1.10 Knitting Competition
1.15 Movie Matinee “Without Reservation”
2.45 Cooking with Zelda
3.00 Painting & Home Decorating
3.10 Knitting Competition
3.15 Beauty & the Beast
4.00 Tommy Hanlon
4.25 Cohns Cobbers
4.30 Batfink
4.55 Cohns Cobbers Teleclub
5.05 Flintstones
5.30 Cohns Cobbers
5.35 Mackenzie’s Raiders
6.00 Andy Griffith
6.25 District News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Skippy
7.30 Bonanza “Joe Cartwright, Detective” (A)
8.30 Wednesday Night Movie “Knock on Any Door” (A)
10.20 District News
10.30 Keep Fit with Debbie Drake
10.45 close

BTV6 Ballarat
11.30 Here’s Humphrey
noon Beauty & the Beast
12.30 Everybody’s Talking
1.00 Tommy Hanlon
1.25 Hilton Competition
1.30 Sewing Hints
1.35 How Does Your Garden Grow?
1.50 Beauty Box
2.00 People in Conflict
2.30 Movie Matinee “Margin for Error”
3.45 Focus on France
4.00 Cartoon Carnival
4.30 Flash Gordon “Sky Jackers”
5.00 BTV Juniors
5.30 Batman
6.00 Family Affair
6.30 BTV-HSV News
6.55 Western Victoria News
7.00 Get Smart “Maxwell Smart alias Jimmy Ballantine”
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.30 Adult Theatre Club “The Young Savages” (A)
10.15 Seven Days “It’s a Better Job Than Yours Mate”
11.15 News/Weather
11.25 Epilogue
11.30 close

GMV6 Shepparton
noon Romper Room
12.25 Willey’s Story Time
12.30 Everybody’s Talking
1.00 Tommy Hanlon
1.30 Wednesday Afternoon Movie “Baghdad”
3.00 Marriage Confidential
3.30 Marriage Game
4.00 Here’s Humphrey
4.25 Mickey Mouse
4.50 GMV Juniors
5.20 Kit Carson
5.40 Cartoons
6.00 Marine Boy “Flim Flam of the High Seas”
6.25 Local & District News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Skippy “Tara” (pt 1)
7.30 Lucy Show “Lucy Gets Mooney Fired”
8.00 My Name’s McGooley-What’s Yours?
8.30 Premier Theatre “Forever and a Boy”
10.30 News/Weather
11.10 Epilogue
11.15 close

BCV8 Bendigo
noon Detectives “Short Way Home” (A)
12.25 Tommy Hanlon
12.55 News Headlines
1.00 Motel
1.25 Farmer’s Daughter “Ney, Ney, A Thousand Times Ney”
2.00 Cooking Better Electrically
2.15 Community Billboard
2.20 Movietime “Illegal Entry” (A)
3.50 Here’s Humphrey
4.15 Cartoon Carousel
4.35 Captain Scarlet
5.00 Addams Family “Lurch’s Little Helper”
5.25 Littlest Hobo “Honored Guest”
5.50 News
5.55 McHale’s Navy “Dear Diary”
6.20 Local News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Mothers-in-Law “I Thought He’d Never Leave”
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.25 Doctor’s House Call
8.30 Wednesday Theatre “The Organiser” (A)
10.45 Detectives (A)
11.35 News/Weather
11.45 Epilogue
11.50 close

GLV10 Gippsland
noon Yarra Glen Races
4.55 Ansett-ANA Junior Flying Club
5.00 Mickey Mouse Club
5.25 Magic Moments in Sport
5.30 Phantom Agents
6.00 Second Hundred Years “Right of Way”
6.25 Gippsland News
6.30 National News
7.00 Dick Van Dyke
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.30 Fugitive “Passage to Helena” (A)
9.25 Gippsland News
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News
11.15 Epilogue
11.20 close

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Cutting edge TV for that era, this was basically a computer predicting (I assume with some data fed in to assist although just how much it could handle in that era is unknown) the results of the weekend’s footy games.

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Melbourne TV listings: Tuesday, June 11, 1996
from The Age

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Interesting that The Age was still denoting o’clocks as .0 (e.g. 10:00 stylised as 10.0) in the mid-90s. I thought that sort of formatting had died away by the 70s.

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I remember these Monday night airings of Ricki Lake were “adults only” episodes rated MA15+. I was disappointed the lack of violence and t and a.

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It did in most of the world just not at The Age

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I was very sad to hear that Ralphe died on November 11, 2018. He was found by neighbors, and left no heirs. I guess as his ex-wife, I’m about the only family he had. We would have been married for 49 years yesterday, June 6, 2019.

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Melbourne TV WEEK: Monday, December 12, 1994

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Interesting… when did Barrie Cassidy work for Ten? He’s listed to be reading the morning news from Melbourne?

What was Summer Diary’s with Naomi Robertson? I’m assuming this was a fill in program between Real Life and Today Tonight commencing?

Also, the ABC had Australian Television News and Breakfast News from 6.30-7.30am.

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Summer Diary was a fill-in current affairs program hosted by Naomi Robson during the summer of 1994-95 before Today Tonight’s debut.

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I think it was during the mid-1990s before returning to the ABC? Also presented, or at least had some role on Meet The Press in this era if I’m not mistaken.

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Why did Sky Channel (of all places) simulcasted National Nine News?

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Kerry Packer owned Sky Channel. The number of race meetings available to bet on in those days wasn’t as vast as it is now. There was plenty of filler content courtesy of Nine on the channel.

I remember attending early morning union meetings in licensed venues in those days because Packer would allow the unions to broadcast to their members through Sky Channel.

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I seem to recall comments on this forum (perhaps even this very thread) which suggested that Sky used to rotate between the Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane bulletins which no doubt would’ve been quite interesting viewing for media enthusiasts who were around in the 1980s/1990s! :slight_smile:

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I remember reading that, also. I don’t doubt it happened but I have no memory of seeing anything other than the Brian Henderson Sydney bulletin running on the odd occasion I was in a TAB at 6pm in the early 1990s. If I had known I could catch a full Melbourne or Brisbane bulletin I would’ve been in there more often! Perhaps they had the ability to localise the feed at some stage.

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Melbourne TV listings: Wednesday, June 10, 1998
from The Age

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