Unfortunately, the same success could not be replicated when ACP moved to Ten.
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It’s timeslot changes didn’t help matters, either. They first aired TEN’s version of ACP at 7.30pm Wednesday nights, then moved to Saturday night at 7.30pm a few weeks later. When the ratings continued to drop, they moved the show to 5.30pm Saturday afternoons until its cancellation
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and the fact that they completely changed the setting, the state and most of the characters.
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19 November 1956: ABC launches its second TV station, ABV2 in Melbourne.
Source: Listener In-TV
Source: The Age
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Also they ditched the two episode a week format, in favour of a single weekly episode.
In my opinion,the original Channel 7 series had probably at least another couple of years in it. Would love to have seen Terence and Rosemary in married life.
I heard James Davern in an interview on the podcast “A Country Podcast” and he said he was getting very tired towards the end, and Channel Ten offered him a lot of money.
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Damn, I hoped they would have shown unauthorised Olympic telecasts.
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22 November 1956: Melbourne’s three TV stations (including one that hasn’t even opened yet) all provide live coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Melbourne Olympic Games.
Source: Listener In-TV
22 November 1971: Former ABC journalist Mike Willesee launches his new project, A Current Affair, on the Nine Network. Willesee lasted two years at ACA before heading to Ten, but ACA continued through to 1978 and of course came back in 1988 with Jana Wendt and still going to this day with Tracy Grimshaw.
22 November 1976: Mike Willesee, having been through Nine and Ten as above, returns to nightly current affairs with the debut of a new show, Willesee At Seven, for the Seven Network. The new show, produced on an alternate basis from both Sydney and Melbourne, continued through to 1982.
22 November 1993: The final of the Seven Network’s run of A Country Practice features a movie-length episode plus a one-hour special hosted by Stan Grant. By this stage we already knew that the series had been picked up by Ten.
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Yes, apparently the final episode was filmed and delivered to the network, when Channel 10 acquired the series, however the Channel 7 ending was open ended enough for the writers to come up with a way of continuing the series.
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And the continuation was complete crap…
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I have found the extra features that they aired before and after the movie length final episode on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvC8RZ8e9PA
Interesting to look behind the scenes. Doing that 48 weeks a year would be unheard of now.
I was 11 when this aired, I remember I was allowed to stay up(which was rare on a school night)but started to fall asleep by the time the last bit came on.
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24 November 1975: ATV0 launches Melbourne’s first one-hour news with the expansion of Eyewitness News and a switch back to 6.00pm. The one-hour format only lasted a few months and not tried again until 1978.
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27 November 1965: Mildura’s commercial station STV8 is officially opened a week later than scheduled. The last minute delay meant that ABC became the first TV station to launch in Mildura on 22 November.
Source: Sunraysia Daily
27 November 1998: The final edition of Midday on the Nine Network, ending three years of hosting by Kerri-Anne Kennerley. The show ran for 14 years but was essentially an extension of The Mike Walsh Show that began in 1973.
27 November 1998: Brian Naylor signs off from his final news bulletin, ending 20 years at GTV9 and a career that began 40 years earlier in radio and at HSV7.
27 November 2010: The Nine Network farewells its heritage studios at 22 Bendigo Street, Richmond, with the final episode of Hey Hey It’s Saturday and a special Lights Camera Party! Television City Celebrates, the latter presented live Studio One which hosted the official launch of GTV9 back in 1957.
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Is there any video of the GTV special? I’ve always been curious since I’ve seen the sign off from the final bulletin (and Rob McKnights tours), but being interstate I never saw it when it aired initially.
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Yes, do we have any clips of this show?
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I had it recorded on my PVR at the time but the machine is now dead 
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I was lucky enough to be in the Final Episode of Hey Hey It’s Saturday and it was great to see the old celebrity going thru the entrance with the audience of Hey Hey. It was very emotional event. I remember looking up at the Benidgo St Building as I hope into the car, with a tear in my eye
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There wasn’t a dry eye in the studio that night
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YouTube: Glenn Matters.
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Especially when Daryl starting singing
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30 November 1963: Coverage of the federal election marked the beginning of the Nine Network’s tenure over the coaxial cable between Sydney and Melbourne. Although the link was formally launched on 1 December 1963, it was put into use a day earlier for the election link-up between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
The actual cable infrastructure was officially switched on by the government in April 1962 but it was rarely used until Nine struck up a deal to a full-time lease on a two-way connection, allowing a real-time relay of programming and news stories between the two cities.
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