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RTE1 RTE1
N2 Network 2 (RTE)
TV3 TV3
TG4 TG4
UTV Ulster TV (ITV-Northern Ireland)
HTV HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
S4C S4C (listings begin at noon, the network mainly carried C4 programs in the morning)
BBC1 BBC1 Northern Ireland
BBC2 BBC2 Northern Ireland
C4 Channel 4
C5 Channel 5
Morning
5.00
RTE1-C5 EuroNews
BBC1 BBC News 24
5.30
UTV-HTV ITV News
5.55
C4 Sesame Street
6.00
N2 Sesame Street
UTV-HTV GMTV
C5 Wild World
6.30
C5 Antiques Hunter
6.35
BBC2 Movie "Pot o' Gold" (bw)
6.55
C4 Bush Tales
7.00
N2 Oliver Twist
BBC1 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
C4 Ivor the Engine
C5 Dappeldown Farm
7.02
BBC1 Littlest Pet Shop
7.05
C4 Really Wild Animals
7.15
TV3 Salty's Lighthouse
7.20
RTE1 Great Journeys (travelling the Ho Chi Minh Trail)
N2 All Dogs Go to Heaven
7.25
BBC1 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Next Mutation (TMNT was renamed for the UK market)
7.30
C4 Princess Sissi
C5 Milkshake!
7.35
C5 Tickle, Patch & Friends
7.40
TV3 Anatole
7.45
BBC1 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
8.00
TG4 EuroNews (TG4 was associated with RTE, but would later separate; they now carry news from France 24)
BBC2 Weekend 24 (news from BBC News 24)
C4 TransWorld Sport
C5 The Bible
8.05
TV3 Conan the Adventurer
BBC1 Flintstones
8.12
N2 Happy Birthday
8.15
N2 NeverEnding Story
8.25
RTE1 Living Literature "Hamlet"
8.30
BBC1 New Adventures of Superman
C5 Wishbone
8.35
TV3 Space Cases
8.40
N2 Oggy & the Cockroaches
9.00
TV3 Young Hercules
TG4 Cybernet
BBC2 Sports Personality of the Century
C4 Morning Line
C5 Fort Boyard
9.05
N2 Rugrats
9.15
BBC1 Live & Kicking
9.20
N2 Pokemon
9.25
UTV-HTV SMTV Live
9.30
RTE1 Simply Painting
TV3 USA High
TG4 SFX
9.45
N2 Rugrats
10.00
RTE1 Big Changes for Small Firms
TV3 City Guys
TG4 Fisean, Scannain, Cluichi
C4 Gazzetta Football Italia
C5 Footy Shorts
10.10
N2 RoboCop Alpha Commando
10.30
RTE1 Bloom
TV3 Student Bodies
TG4 Ros na Run
C5 Wonder Years
10.45
N2 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
11.00
RTE1 News/Black Box
TV3 Team Knight Rider
BBC See Hear! on Saturday (program for the deaf)
C4 Mountain Bike Britain
11.05
C5 Cowboyz & Cowgirlz
11.10
N2 Rugrats
11.30
N2 Hey Arnold!
TG4 NBA Action
UTV-HTV CD UK
C4 Sign On
11.35
C5 Beverly Hills 90210
11.45
BBC2 Movie "Morning Departure" (bw)
11.55
TV3 Air America
Afternoon
noon
RTE1 Sportiris
N2 Batman
TG4 NBA Game
S4C-C4 Waltons
12.10
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
12.15
BBC1 Grandstand
12.20
BBC1 Football Focus
12.30
RTE1 News
N2 Top 30 Hits
UTV Movies, Games & Videos
HTV What on Earth?
C5 America in the 50s
12.35
RTE1 New Pink Panther Show
12.45
TV3 Starsky & Hutch
1.00
RTE1 Movie "A Big Hand for the Little Lady"
TG4 Last Time I Saw Paris
UTV-HTV ITV News/Weather
S4C Priory
C4 Little House on the Prairie
C5 5 News
1.05
UTV UTV News/Weather
HTV HTV News/Weather
BBC1 Racing from Ascot
1.10
UTV-HTV On the Ball (Worthington Cup and FA Cup highlights)
C5 Movie Chart Show
1.20
BBC1 Football Focus
1.25
BBC2 Behind the Camera (profiling cinematographer Douglas Slocombe)
1.30
N2 Knight Rider
1.40
BBC1 Racing
BBC2 Movie "Guns at Batasi" (bw)
C5 Exclusive
1.45
TV3 Movie "Man of La Mancha"
1.50
UTV Amazing Incredible Helicopters
HTV Movies, Games & Videos
1.55
BBC1 Rugby Union
2.00
S4C-C4 Racing from Warwick and Uttoxeter
2.10
BBC1 Racing
2.20
HTV Hollywood's Greatest
2.25
N2 European Cup Rugby
2.30
BBC1 Rugby Union
C5 Family Affairs omnibus
2.45
RTE1 News Headlines/Weather/Incredible Hulk
2.50
TG4 Ceoilin
UTV-HTV Clueless
3.05
TG4 Lucy Show (x2)
3.20
UTV-HTV Movie "A Christmas Carol" (1984 version starring George C. Scott)
BBC1 Football Latest
BBC2 Movie "MacArthur"
3.25
BBC1 Rugby Union
3.40
RTE1 A-Team
4.00
TG4 Boisini
S4C Real Bionic Man
C4 Arms in Action
4.05
TV3 Quantum Leap
4.10
TG4 Lucha na bhFiacal
4.15
N2 New Pink Panther Show
TG4 Chugat an Chailleach
4.30
C4 Right to Reply (viewers sound off)
4.35
RTE1 Simpsons
4.40
N2 Cartoon Time
4.45
N2 Movie "Christmas Comes to Willow Creek"
C5 The Tribe
5.00
TV3 Ask Harriet
BBC1 Northern Ireland Results
5.05
RTE1 Xena: Warrior Princess
TG4 Art O'Ruairc
S4C Newyddion (produced by BBC Wales)
C4 Brookside omnibus
5.10
UTV UTV News/Weather
HTV HTV News/Sports Results/Weather
S4C Y Clwb Rygbi
5.15
UTV-HTV Saturday Sport
5.25
UTV-HTV ITV News/Results/Weather
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
BBC2 TOTP2 (features Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones)
5.30
TV3 News
5.35
TG4 Stuideo X
5.40
BBC1 Newsline
C5 Knight Rider: Goliath Returns
5.45
UTV-HTV Gladiators: The Final Battle
BBC1 'Allo! 'Allo!
Evening
6.00
RTE1 The Angelus
TV3 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
6.01
RTE1 News/Sport/News for the Deaf/Weather
6.10
BBC1 Big Break
BBC2 Wives & Daughters
6.30
RTE1 Movie "The Santa Clause"
N2 Fair City omnibus/Lotto
TG4 Bracken
C4 Channel 4 News/Weather
6.40
BBC1 2000 to One (in support of the Children's Promise Final Hour Appeal, 2000 contestants are whittled down to 5 who will square off on New Year's Eve to win a shot at a full year off work with full pay)
6.45
UTV-HTV New You've Been Framed!
6.55
TV3 Seven Days
7.00
C4 Johnny Vaughan Film Show
7.10
BBC1 Red Alert with the National Lottery
7.15
UTV-HTV Blind Date
S4C Newyddion a Chwaraeon
7.25
BBC2 What the Papers Say (The Guardian's Eamonn McCabe looks back at the year's headlines)
7.30
TG4 Idir Mhagadh agus Dairire
S4C C'mon Midffild
C4 Northern Rites (part 2 of a 4 part visit to Manchester's religiously-diverse Cheetham Hill neighborhood)
C5 5 News & Sport
7.35
BBC2 Meet the Ancestors
7.50
TV3 Walker, Texas Ranger
8.00
N2 Cinnlinte Nuachta/Weather/Friends
TG4 Nuacht TG4/Weather
S4C Noson Lawen
C4 The Real Jesus Christ
C5 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
8.05
BBC1 Casualty
BBC2 Biggest Wheel in the World (looks at the London Eye)/One Man & His Dog: The Previews
8.10
RTE1 Winning Streak
8.15
UTV-HTV Family Fortunes (local version of Family Feud)
8.20
TG4 Expose
8.30
N2 ER: The Clooney Years
8.45
UTV-HTV ITV News/Weather
8.50
TV3 Entertainment Update
8.55
BBC1 Jonathan Creek
9.00
RTE1 News/Weather
TV3 Movie "Sunset Park"
UTV-HTV British Comedy Awards 1999 (Jonathan Ross hosts)
S4C Cymru 2000
BBC2 Hippies
C4 Movie "The Man Who Would Be King"
C5 Movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"/Sharp Shorts
9.20
RTE1 Saturday Live
TG4 Movie "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (bw)
9.25
N2 X-Files
9.30
BBC2 Pulp Fact
9.40
BBC2 Movie "Pulp Fiction"
9.45
BBC1 Dinnerladies
10.00
S4C Y Clwb Rygbi
10.15
N2 Movie "Risky Business"
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
10.25
RTE1 Premiership (soccer highlights)
10.30
BBC1 Match of the Day (Premiership highlights)
10.35
S4C Movie "The Man Who Would Be King"
10.50
C5 Fire/Sharp Shorts
10.55
TV3 Movie "Darkman"
11.15
UTV-HTV Casting Couch (celebrity gossip)
11.25
TG4 Movie "Don Juan"
C4 Movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers"
11.40
BBC1 Stand-Up Show (guests Rhona Cameron, Colin Muprhy, and Barry Castagnola)
11.45
RTE1 Bull Island
UTV-HTV Movie "City Heat"
11.50
C5 NHL: teams not listed
Late Night
midnight
N2 Movie Show
12.15
RTE1 Drew Carey
BBC1 Insider's Guide to the Olympics
BBC2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12.30
BBC1 Movie "Up the Front"
12.40
TV3 Pop on 3
12.45
RTE1 News Headlines/Evening Prayer
N2 NYPD Blue
12.50
RTE1 Movie "Misery"
12.56
TG4 An Aimsir Laithreach
1.00
TG4 EuroNews (sign-off 1.30)
S4C Johnny Vaughan Film Show
BBC2 Movie "The Prodigal Son" (sign-off 2.40)
1.25
C4 Pop Up Video (features Texas, Simple Minds, and Wet Wet Wet)
1.30
UTV-HTV Jerry Springer
S4C Pop Up Video
1.35
N2 Movie "The Cassandra Crossing"
1.40
TV3 Promise of Patrick & Paddy
1.55
BBC1 Top of the Tops (guests Mario Piu and Jamiroquai)
C4 Eurotika! (profiles Michael Reeves)
2.00
S4C Eurotika!
2.20
BBC1 BBC News 24
2.30
C4 Movie "She Beast"
2.35
S4C Movie "She Beast"
2.40
TV3 Home Shopping (sign-off 3.20)
2.50
RTE1 New Avengers
2.55
UTV-HTV Dial-a-Date
3.20
UTV Public Morals
HTV Jazz with Julian Joseph
3.45
RTE1 Movie "Diane"
UTV-HTV Comedy Cafe
3.50
N2 Fish
3.55
C4 The Other Side
4.00
S4C The Other Side (sign-off 4.55)
C4 Dutch Football
4.10
UTV-HTV CD UK
4.35
N2 No Disco
4.40
TV3 Home Shopping
4.50
C4 Powerhouse
RTE1 RTE1
N2 Network 2 (RTE)
TV3 TV3
TG4 TG4
UTV Ulster TV (ITV-Northern Ireland)
HTV HTV Wales (ITV-Wales)
S4C S4C (listings begin at noon, the network mainly carried C4 programs in the morning)
BBC1 BBC1 Northern Ireland
BBC2 BBC2 Northern Ireland
C4 Channel 4
C5 Channel 5
Morning
5.00
RTE1-C5 EuroNews
BBC1 BBC News 24
5.30
UTV-HTV ITV News
5.55
C4 Sesame Street
6.00
N2 Sesame Street
UTV-HTV GMTV
C5 Wild World
6.30
C5 Antiques Hunter
6.35
BBC2 Movie "Pot o' Gold" (bw)
6.55
C4 Bush Tales
7.00
N2 Oliver Twist
BBC1 Teletubbies Advent Calendar
C4 Ivor the Engine
C5 Dappeldown Farm
7.02
BBC1 Littlest Pet Shop
7.05
C4 Really Wild Animals
7.15
TV3 Salty's Lighthouse
7.20
RTE1 Great Journeys (travelling the Ho Chi Minh Trail)
N2 All Dogs Go to Heaven
7.25
BBC1 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Next Mutation (TMNT was renamed for the UK market)
7.30
C4 Princess Sissi
C5 Milkshake!
7.35
C5 Tickle, Patch & Friends
7.40
TV3 Anatole
7.45
BBC1 Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
8.00
TG4 EuroNews (TG4 was associated with RTE, but would later separate; they now carry news from France 24)
BBC2 Weekend 24 (news from BBC News 24)
C4 TransWorld Sport
C5 The Bible
8.05
TV3 Conan the Adventurer
BBC1 Flintstones
8.12
N2 Happy Birthday
8.15
N2 NeverEnding Story
8.25
RTE1 Living Literature "Hamlet"
8.30
BBC1 New Adventures of Superman
C5 Wishbone
8.35
TV3 Space Cases
8.40
N2 Oggy & the Cockroaches
9.00
TV3 Young Hercules
TG4 Cybernet
BBC2 Sports Personality of the Century
C4 Morning Line
C5 Fort Boyard
9.05
N2 Rugrats
9.15
BBC1 Live & Kicking
9.20
N2 Pokemon
9.25
UTV-HTV SMTV Live
9.30
RTE1 Simply Painting
TV3 USA High
TG4 SFX
9.45
N2 Rugrats
10.00
RTE1 Big Changes for Small Firms
TV3 City Guys
TG4 Fisean, Scannain, Cluichi
C4 Gazzetta Football Italia
C5 Footy Shorts
10.10
N2 RoboCop Alpha Commando
10.30
RTE1 Bloom
TV3 Student Bodies
TG4 Ros na Run
C5 Wonder Years
10.45
N2 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
11.00
RTE1 News/Black Box
TV3 Team Knight Rider
BBC See Hear! on Saturday (program for the deaf)
C4 Mountain Bike Britain
11.05
C5 Cowboyz & Cowgirlz
11.10
N2 Rugrats
11.30
N2 Hey Arnold!
TG4 NBA Action
UTV-HTV CD UK
C4 Sign On
11.35
C5 Beverly Hills 90210
11.45
BBC2 Movie "Morning Departure" (bw)
11.55
TV3 Air America
Afternoon
noon
RTE1 Sportiris
N2 Batman
TG4 NBA Game
S4C-C4 Waltons
12.10
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
12.15
BBC1 Grandstand
12.20
BBC1 Football Focus
12.30
RTE1 News
N2 Top 30 Hits
UTV Movies, Games & Videos
HTV What on Earth?
C5 America in the 50s
12.35
RTE1 New Pink Panther Show
12.45
TV3 Starsky & Hutch
1.00
RTE1 Movie "A Big Hand for the Little Lady"
TG4 Last Time I Saw Paris
UTV-HTV ITV News/Weather
S4C Priory
C4 Little House on the Prairie
C5 5 News
1.05
UTV UTV News/Weather
HTV HTV News/Weather
BBC1 Racing from Ascot
1.10
UTV-HTV On the Ball (Worthington Cup and FA Cup highlights)
C5 Movie Chart Show
1.20
BBC1 Football Focus
1.25
BBC2 Behind the Camera (profiling cinematographer Douglas Slocombe)
1.30
N2 Knight Rider
1.40
BBC1 Racing
BBC2 Movie "Guns at Batasi" (bw)
C5 Exclusive
1.45
TV3 Movie "Man of La Mancha"
1.50
UTV Amazing Incredible Helicopters
HTV Movies, Games & Videos
1.55
BBC1 Rugby Union
2.00
S4C-C4 Racing from Warwick and Uttoxeter
2.10
BBC1 Racing
2.20
HTV Hollywood's Greatest
2.25
N2 European Cup Rugby
2.30
BBC1 Rugby Union
C5 Family Affairs omnibus
2.45
RTE1 News Headlines/Weather/Incredible Hulk
2.50
TG4 Ceoilin
UTV-HTV Clueless
3.05
TG4 Lucy Show (x2)
3.20
UTV-HTV Movie "A Christmas Carol" (1984 version starring George C. Scott)
BBC1 Football Latest
BBC2 Movie "MacArthur"
3.25
BBC1 Rugby Union
3.40
RTE1 A-Team
4.00
TG4 Boisini
S4C Real Bionic Man
C4 Arms in Action
4.05
TV3 Quantum Leap
4.10
TG4 Lucha na bhFiacal
4.15
N2 New Pink Panther Show
TG4 Chugat an Chailleach
4.30
C4 Right to Reply (viewers sound off)
4.35
RTE1 Simpsons
4.40
N2 Cartoon Time
4.45
N2 Movie "Christmas Comes to Willow Creek"
C5 The Tribe
5.00
TV3 Ask Harriet
BBC1 Northern Ireland Results
5.05
RTE1 Xena: Warrior Princess
TG4 Art O'Ruairc
S4C Newyddion (produced by BBC Wales)
C4 Brookside omnibus
5.10
UTV UTV News/Weather
HTV HTV News/Sports Results/Weather
S4C Y Clwb Rygbi
5.15
UTV-HTV Saturday Sport
5.25
UTV-HTV ITV News/Results/Weather
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
BBC2 TOTP2 (features Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones)
5.30
TV3 News
5.35
TG4 Stuideo X
5.40
BBC1 Newsline
C5 Knight Rider: Goliath Returns
5.45
UTV-HTV Gladiators: The Final Battle
BBC1 'Allo! 'Allo!
Evening
6.00
RTE1 The Angelus
TV3 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
6.01
RTE1 News/Sport/News for the Deaf/Weather
6.10
BBC1 Big Break
BBC2 Wives & Daughters
6.30
RTE1 Movie "The Santa Clause"
N2 Fair City omnibus/Lotto
TG4 Bracken
C4 Channel 4 News/Weather
6.40
BBC1 2000 to One (in support of the Children's Promise Final Hour Appeal, 2000 contestants are whittled down to 5 who will square off on New Year's Eve to win a shot at a full year off work with full pay)
6.45
UTV-HTV New You've Been Framed!
6.55
TV3 Seven Days
7.00
C4 Johnny Vaughan Film Show
7.10
BBC1 Red Alert with the National Lottery
7.15
UTV-HTV Blind Date
S4C Newyddion a Chwaraeon
7.25
BBC2 What the Papers Say (The Guardian's Eamonn McCabe looks back at the year's headlines)
7.30
TG4 Idir Mhagadh agus Dairire
S4C C'mon Midffild
C4 Northern Rites (part 2 of a 4 part visit to Manchester's religiously-diverse Cheetham Hill neighborhood)
C5 5 News & Sport
7.35
BBC2 Meet the Ancestors
7.50
TV3 Walker, Texas Ranger
8.00
N2 Cinnlinte Nuachta/Weather/Friends
TG4 Nuacht TG4/Weather
S4C Noson Lawen
C4 The Real Jesus Christ
C5 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
8.05
BBC1 Casualty
BBC2 Biggest Wheel in the World (looks at the London Eye)/One Man & His Dog: The Previews
8.10
RTE1 Winning Streak
8.15
UTV-HTV Family Fortunes (local version of Family Feud)
8.20
TG4 Expose
8.30
N2 ER: The Clooney Years
8.45
UTV-HTV ITV News/Weather
8.50
TV3 Entertainment Update
8.55
BBC1 Jonathan Creek
9.00
RTE1 News/Weather
TV3 Movie "Sunset Park"
UTV-HTV British Comedy Awards 1999 (Jonathan Ross hosts)
S4C Cymru 2000
BBC2 Hippies
C4 Movie "The Man Who Would Be King"
C5 Movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"/Sharp Shorts
9.20
RTE1 Saturday Live
TG4 Movie "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (bw)
9.25
N2 X-Files
9.30
BBC2 Pulp Fact
9.40
BBC2 Movie "Pulp Fiction"
9.45
BBC1 Dinnerladies
10.00
S4C Y Clwb Rygbi
10.15
N2 Movie "Risky Business"
BBC1 BBC News/Weather
10.25
RTE1 Premiership (soccer highlights)
10.30
BBC1 Match of the Day (Premiership highlights)
10.35
S4C Movie "The Man Who Would Be King"
10.50
C5 Fire/Sharp Shorts
10.55
TV3 Movie "Darkman"
11.15
UTV-HTV Casting Couch (celebrity gossip)
11.25
TG4 Movie "Don Juan"
C4 Movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers"
11.40
BBC1 Stand-Up Show (guests Rhona Cameron, Colin Muprhy, and Barry Castagnola)
11.45
RTE1 Bull Island
UTV-HTV Movie "City Heat"
11.50
C5 NHL: teams not listed
Late Night
midnight
N2 Movie Show
12.15
RTE1 Drew Carey
BBC1 Insider's Guide to the Olympics
BBC2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
12.30
BBC1 Movie "Up the Front"
12.40
TV3 Pop on 3
12.45
RTE1 News Headlines/Evening Prayer
N2 NYPD Blue
12.50
RTE1 Movie "Misery"
12.56
TG4 An Aimsir Laithreach
1.00
TG4 EuroNews (sign-off 1.30)
S4C Johnny Vaughan Film Show
BBC2 Movie "The Prodigal Son" (sign-off 2.40)
1.25
C4 Pop Up Video (features Texas, Simple Minds, and Wet Wet Wet)
1.30
UTV-HTV Jerry Springer
S4C Pop Up Video
1.35
N2 Movie "The Cassandra Crossing"
1.40
TV3 Promise of Patrick & Paddy
1.55
BBC1 Top of the Tops (guests Mario Piu and Jamiroquai)
C4 Eurotika! (profiles Michael Reeves)
2.00
S4C Eurotika!
2.20
BBC1 BBC News 24
2.30
C4 Movie "She Beast"
2.35
S4C Movie "She Beast"
2.40
TV3 Home Shopping (sign-off 3.20)
2.50
RTE1 New Avengers
2.55
UTV-HTV Dial-a-Date
3.20
UTV Public Morals
HTV Jazz with Julian Joseph
3.45
RTE1 Movie "Diane"
UTV-HTV Comedy Cafe
3.50
N2 Fish
3.55
C4 The Other Side
4.00
S4C The Other Side (sign-off 4.55)
C4 Dutch Football
4.10
UTV-HTV CD UK
4.35
N2 No Disco
4.40
TV3 Home Shopping
4.50
C4 Powerhouse
