Retro: Brisbane/Toowoomba/Lismore, Australia Sat, Nov 21, 1964

[Bluenoser]

from TV Week-Brisbane/Toowoomba/Lismore edition
Toowoomba and Lismore stations could be received in parts of Brisbane

Ratings
(G) General
(A) Recommended for Adult Audiences
(AO) Adults Only

ABQ2 Brisbane/ABDQ3 Toowoomba/ABRN6 Lismore
1.30pm Sportsview
3.45 Sheffield Shield Cricket: Queensland v West Australia
5.33 Cartoon Time
6.00 Jazz Meets Folk
6.30 Teen Scene (guest Connie Francis)
6.55 (2-3) Interlude
6.55 (6) Sporting Results
7.00 (2-3) News/Weather (from Brisbane)
7.00 (6) News/Weather (from Sydney)
7.18 Sports Review
7.30 Love That Show?
8.20 This Week in Britain
8.30 Four Corners
9.15 CBS Special: The Burden of Glory on John F. Kennedy
10.15 World Playhouse "Unsinkable Mrs. Brown" (G)
10.45 sign-off

BTQ7 Brisbane
4.45pm National Top 40
5.15 Sing, Sing, Sing (concert from Sydney with Ray Charles & the Raelettes; also Johnny Devlin and Johnny Ashcroft)
6.15 Big News
6.30 Bachelor Father "Bentley and the Homemaker" (G)
7.00 People are Funny (G)
7.30 Hong Kong "The Hunted" (A)
8.23 News Headlines
8.30 Studio A (guests Ethel Merman, Bryan Davies, Gordon Boyd, and the Take Five)
9.25 News Headlines
9.30 All-In Wrestling (action from the UK)
10.30 Lawman
11.00 Late News/Epilogue
11.10 sign-off

RTN8 Lismore
5pm test pattern/music
5.30 Cartoons
5.35 Flight "The Snark" (G)
6.00 Bandstand (guests Kathy Kirby, Jack Gardner, and Geraldine Morrow)
6.55 News Headlines
7.00 Amos 'n' Andy "The Winslow Woman" (G)
7.30 Bonanza "Knight Errant" (G)
8.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Night the World Ended" (AO)
9.00 Saturday Night at the Movies "The Brave Bulls" (A)
10.40 Closing Thought
10.45 sign-off

QTQ9 Brisbane
4.45pm Saturday Date
5.15 Bandstand (Philips Starflight Competition finals with 9 competitors from across Australia)
6.15 Top News
6.30 Lucy Show "Lucy is a Chaperone" (G)
7.00 Andy Griffith "Mayberry on Record" (G)
7.30 Saturday Night Movie "Belles of St. Trinian's" (G)
9.10 Fugitive "Nightmare at Northoak" (A)
10.05 This Man Dawson (A)
10.35 Country & Western Hour (from NWS9 Adelaide)
11.30 sign-off

DDQ10 Toowoomba
5pm Quick Draw McGraw (G)
5.30 Hopalong Cassidy "Hopalong Rides Again" (G)
6.30 Sports Review
7.00 The Story of...a Wrestler (G)
7.30 Laramie "Man of God" (G)
8.20 SQ Country News
8.30 Mr. Novak "A Thousand Voices" (A)
9.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Listen, Listen" (AO)
9.50 Yesterday's Newsreel
10.05 Mahalia Jackson Sings "Remember Me"
10.10 sign-off

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Australian TV had program content ratings at least 33 years before American networks did!

 

[ronald54321]

Adults Only for the 1950's Alfred Hitchcock half hour show! Maybe Howdy Doody was at least A because of a weird clown. Raters were the same morons then as today!

 

[TVWorldwide]

Australian TV had program content ratings at least 33 years before American networks did!

Indeed. Here's what Timothy Green had to say about Australian content ratings in his 1972 book The Universal Eye: The World of Television:

"[...] all imported films destined for television are still subject to the approval of the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board. The Board grades them either G, indicating that they may be shown on television at any time; A, meaning that they are not recommended for children and must not be shown before 7:30 in the evenings; or AO, adults only, which may be shown only after 8:30 P.M."

France also had a content ratings system early on. Again quoting Green's 1972 book:

"The French also take seriously the question of television and violence, but their policy is to advise the viewer very thoroughly what he is in for and then leave it up to his own discretion whether he watches. Not only does the weekly program guide Télé 7 Jours indicate the age groups to which any film is most suited -- for adults only, for adults and adolescents, or for everyone -- but throughout a program considered unsuitable for children a small white rectangle is shown on one corner of the screen. Thus parents tuning in late or without checking the details are alerted at once by the 'rectangle blanc' that the program may not be appropriate for all the family."