Here’s a closedown (as it’s called in Commonwealth countries because New Zealand and Australia are amongst them) from TVNZ in 1987.
TV One (now TVNZ 1) closed down at approx 11.55pm on the evening of Thursday 8 October 1987 - straight after an 11pm rerun of Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner. Highlights for the following evening included:
- The District Nurse, a BBC drama serial;
- Holiday 87, a travel series from TVNZ;
- Kaleidoscope, a weekly arts programme from TVNZ (featuring a profile of late actress Elizabeth Moody); and
- Shooting Stars (Hawke and O’Keefe) (a 1983 TV movie starring Billy Dee Williams and Parker Stevenson)
After a preview of Friday night’s viewing on TV One (voiced by Lloyd Scott), a final look at the clock - similar to the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 from the UK. With the voice of TV One’s then continuity announcer, Mike Bodnar, it was 11.56pm and TV One opened transmission with The New Ed Allen Show at 10.45am the next morning (after 15 minutes of in-vision pages from TVNZ’s now-defunct Teletext service)!
And then finally, the closing sequence for TV One. Prior to mid-1987, the Goodnight Kiwi cartoon was broadcast on both channels at closedown.
